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Working Conditions on Digital Labour Platforms : Evidence from a Leading Labour Supply Economy
Aleksynska, Mariya - 2019
Online labour platforms matching labour supply and demand are profoundly modifying the world of work. Businesses use … them to outsource tasks to a world-wide pool of workers; while workers can access work opportunities transcending national … workers of Ukraine, which in 2013-2017 occupied the first place in Europe, and the fourth place in the world in terms of the …
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Hybrid (Solo)Self-Employment and Upskilling : Is Online Platform Work a Path Towards Entrepreneurship?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Ranieri, Antonio - 2022
The increasing use of online labour platforms as intermediaries for finding work - known as crowdwork or gig work - is a new form of 'hybrid' (solo)self-employment that hinges on the borders of dependent and self-employment. In this study we use a novel international dataset of online platform...
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The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction : An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2015
The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of individual and groups of countries and to analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034084
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Globalization, Structural Change and Innovation in Emerging Economies : The Impact on Employment and Skills
Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909972
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Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2014
We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend– also known as Petty's law – is not...
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status. In particular, the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033677
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Lockdown Accounting
Gottlieb, Charles - 2020
We measure the effect of lockdown policies on employment and GDP across countries using individual- and sector-level data. Employment effects depend on the ability to work from home, which ranges from about half of total employment in rich countries to around 35% in poor countries. This gap...
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Military Spending and Innovation : Learning from 19th Century World Fair Exhibition Data
Danzer, Alexander; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023
. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358849
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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas (Traqs), the Syrian Crisis and the New European Agenda on Migration
Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas - 2015
The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across...
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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy
Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas - 2014
The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We show that the proposed system can go a long way towards...
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