test whether there are threshold effects between temperature and mortality, using a panel of 78 major cities in 22 OECD … countries for 1990-2008. From the empirical analysis, we find that the relationship between temperature and mortality has three … threshold effects, namely 15.21℉ (-9.33℃), 46.97℉ (8.32℃), and 87.53℉ (30.85℃). If the temperature is below 15.21℉ (-9.33℃), the …

to climate change. Cold weather shocks at the peak of the slave trade predict lower economic activity today. We support …

show that a typical port exported fewer slaves in a year when the local temperature was warmer than normal. This result is …

Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have … countries, leaving rich countries basically unaffected. In this study, we make use of a detailed weather and economic dataset …

productivity of the manufacturing sector is five per cent higher with each doubling of urban population. The substantial advantages …

that of the formal sector. The major strengths of this sector are its low capital requirement, higher employment generation … the basis of industrial activities, employment size, capital base, pattern of linkages, and productivity levels and, (ii …) its skewed employment structure of being an absolute domain for males. Specific policies for specific sectors of the IMS …

manufacturing sector and the exports of manufactured goods. However, an acceleration of growth of output and employment in … manufacturing has eluded India. This is despite the fact that the central focus of the reforms in the 1980s and 1990s was to … unshackle the manufacturing sector. Instead it is the services sector which has grown rapidly, contributing about two-third of …

associated with compositional shifts in the economy. Employment and output have plunged in manufacturing (whose level of … than the rest of Canada or the United States. This is obviously a cause for concern. Productivity is an important measure … sector employment rate. Is productivity an independent causal factor, or merely the residual outcome of weak demand? This …