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Measuring urban economic density
Henderson, J. Vernon; Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya; Kriticos, … - 2018
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Jobs' amenability to working from home : evidence from skills surveys for 53 countries
Hatayama, Maho; Viollaz, Mariana; Winkler, Hernan - 2020
The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of how many jobs can be done at home. This paper uses skills surveys from 53 countries at varying levels of economic development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241132
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Pandemic trade : Covid-19, remote work and global value chains
Espitia, Alvaro; Mattoo, Aaditya; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, … - 2021
This paper studies the trade effects of Covid-19 using monthly disaggregated trade data for 28 countries and multiple trading partners from the beginning of the pandemic to June 2020. Regression results based on a sector-level gravity model show that the negative trade effects induced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434704
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Who on earth can work from home?
Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Gomez Parra, Nicolas; Özden, … - 2020
This paper presents new estimates of the share of jobs that can be performed from home. The analysis is based on the task content of occupations, their information and communications technology requirements, and the availability of internet access by country and income groupings. Globally, one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297648
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A few things transport regulators should know about risk and the cost of capital
Alexander, Ian; Estache, Antonio; Oliveri, Adele - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001410167
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Understanding the economic impacts of greenhouse gas mitigation policies on shipping : what is the state of the art of current modeling approaches?
Halim, Ronald A.; Smith, Tristan; Englert, Dominik - 2019
increase maritime transport costs by 0.4 percent to 16 percent. However, this would only marginally increase the import prices … of goods (by less than 1 percent). For transport choices, the increased cost of maritime transport induced by greenhouse … gas mitigation measures might only slightly reduce the share of maritime transport, by 0.16 percent globally. Furthermore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002701
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Estimating the size of external effects of energy subsidies in transport and agriculture
Commander, Simon John; Nikoloski, Zlatko Slobodan; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513421
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Estimating resiliency benefits of road upgradation : case of the East Road in Malaita, Solomon Islands
Marcelo, Darwin; Raina, Aditi - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230823
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Who benefits from better roads and why? : mixed methods analysis of the gender-disaggregated impacts of a rural roads project in Vietnam
Mannava, Aneesh; Perova, Elizaveta; Phuong Thi Minh Tran - 2020
The literature lends empirical support for the idea that improvements to transport infrastructure lead to economic … development. How and why the benefits of better transport differ between genders is less clear. This paper attempts to answer this … face constraints in taking advantage of newly created economic opportunities. Coordinating transport investments with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240557
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Fuel efficiency versus fuel substitution in the transport sector : an econometric analysis
Hochman, Gal; Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730223