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A Review of the Circular Economy and its Implementation
Heshmati, Almas - 2016
Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
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North-South Displacement Effects of Environmental Regulation : The Case of Battery Recycling
Tanaka, Shinsuke; Teshima, Kensuke; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2022
battery recycling to Mexico and on infant health in Mexico. In the U.S., airborne lead dropped sharply near affected plants …, most of which were battery-recycling plants. Exports of used batteries to Mexico rose markedly. In Mexico, production … increased at battery-recycling plants, relative to comparable industries, and birth outcomes deteriorated within two miles of …
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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding ofthe fundamental sources of economic growth and development. In this chapter we surveyimportant contributions in the field by focussing on the basic structure of endogenous growthmodels with horizontal as well...
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Manufacturing Employment and Exchange Rates in the Portuguese Economy : The Role of Openness, Technology and Labour Market Rigidity
Alexandre, Fernando - 2010
In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination of the effect of the exchange rate on employment in Portugal. We develop an index that allows us to measure labour market flexibility at the sector level. This index shows that...
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Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle dynamics, where firms rely on banks and households for capital financing. Firms are identical ex ante but differ ex post due to different realizations of firm specific technology...
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Employment and Exchange Rates : The Role of Openness and Technology
Alexandre, Fernando - 2009
Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition and with the technology level. This paper...
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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the...
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Technology and the Demand for Skill : An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences
Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John; Lane, Julia; … - 2021
We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...
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Human Capital Externalities with Monopsonistic Competition
Kaas, Leo - 2021
This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model of monopsonistic competition. Multiple equilibria arise because of a strategic complementarity in investment decisions
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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true effects of beauty on happiness. Personal beauty...
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