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highlight the gendered impact of climate change, potentially exacerbating extant gender gaps in the labor market. …Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the … gender-differentiated labor impacts of droughts resulting from lower precipitation using unique individual-level panel data …
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We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost …-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a … with a simple Leontief-type model, the proposed measure is constructed as a weighted average of unit labor costs of all …
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state surveillance on social capital and economic performance. Using county-level variation in the spy density in the 1980s …, we exploit discontinuities at state borders to show that higher levels of Stasi surveillance led to lower levels of … losses throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Overall, our results suggest that the social and economic costs of state surveillance …
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process and capital devoted to monitoring workers. Surveillance capital intensifies workers' job strain, while wage …
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Degrowth as responses to planetary overshoot. It concludes that neither Green Growth nor Degrowth will stop overshoot. Moreover …, Degrowth may worsen the environment, is a costly method to reduce carbon emissions, is a form of austerity for the working … class, is redundant, and is politically infeasible. Finally, a third approach beyond Green Growth and Degrowth is outlined …
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The Degrowth Movement calls for "degrowth" – a reduction in GDP in advanced economies – to avert an ecological crisis …. This paper argues that the Degrowth Movement misses that the West is already in a state resembling degrowth – a Great … Stagnation. This state of degrowth and its correlates, declining entrepreneurship, innovation, science, and research productivity …
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For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...
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migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a …
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primary care may be a useful means of mitigating harm from a warming climate. …
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Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making …
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