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Being Your Own Boss and Bossing Others: The Moderating Effect of Managing Others on Work Meaning and Autonomy for the Self-Employed and Employees
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris; Boudreaux, Christopher - 2021
We examine the moderating role of being a supervisor for meaning and autonomy of self-employed and employed workers. We rely on regression analysis applied after entropy balancing based on a nationally representative dataset of over 80,000 individuals in 30 European countries for 2005, 2010, and...
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Globalization and Firm Performance
Catão, Luis A. V.; de Faria, Pedro; Martins, António; … - 2023
Using a new panel dataset of about 140 thousand Portuguese firms during 2006-2019, we measure the effects of globalization on firm-level performance along four dimensions: ownership of capital, employment of foreign-seasoned managers, and participation in export and import markets. Once at least...
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Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment
Dunsch, Felipe A.; Evans, David K.; Eze-Ajoku, Ezinne; … - 2017
If health service delivery is poorly managed, then increases in inputs or ability may not translate into gains in quality. However, little is known about how to increase managerial capital to generate persistent improvements in quality. We present results from a randomized field experiment in 80...
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Widening the High School Curriculum to Include Soft Skill Training: Impacts on Health, Behaviour, Emotional Wellbeing and Occupational Aspirations
Lordan, Grace; McGuire, Alistair - 2019
From 2020 Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education will be compulsory in UK schools for adolescents, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059169
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Environmental Disasters and Migration
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015
This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental … disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters … insurance mechanism against environmental shocks. Remittances help to decrease households' vulnerability to shocks but also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401615
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Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2015
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects susceptibility to infectious disease. The empirical analysis combines the sharp timing of the pandemic with large cross-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired...
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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and …
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Energy Consumption and Health Outcomes in Africa
BenYoussef, Adel; Lannes, Laurence; Rault, Christophe; … - 2016
We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy, greenhouse effect, and government expenditure per capita) for a sample of 16 African countries over the period 1971-2010 (according to availability of countries' data). We use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584640
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Fertility, Mortality and Environmental Policy
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2016
This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653193
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The Legacy Lead Deposition in Soils and Its Impact on Cognitive Function in Preschool-Aged Children in the United States
Clay, Karen; Portnykh, Margarita; Severnini, Edson R. - 2019
Surface soil contamination has been long recognized as an important pathway of human lead exposure, and is now a worldwide health concern. This study estimates the causal effects of exposure to lead in topsoil on cognitive ability among 5-year-old children. We draw on individual level data from...
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