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The growth rate of temporary help service employment is often considered to be a leading business cycle indicator, because the firing and hiring of temporary help workers typically lead that of permanent workers. However, few works in the literature focus on the mechanism that generates the lag...
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This paper uses an own built dataset on the history of universities in Italy during 1861-2010 to estimate neighbourhood effects in the local supply of higher education, and incorporate them in a welfare analysis. We implement an instrumental variables approach that exploits initial conditions in...
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India is at the cusp of a major urban transition. In less than twenty years, India's urban population is expected to nearly double from 377 million today to over 600 million. Indian cities already contribute an estimated two-thirds of India's GDP, and this number is expected to rise to 75% by...
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Existing studies in finance have documented the comovement of stock returns of companies headquartered in the same location. The interpretation is that local investors have a “local bias†due to an information advantage on local companies. This paper argues that localized agglomeration...
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Economic vulnerability is approached from micro- and macroeconomic perspectives. While the microeconomic perspective is … impact of these shocks on economic growth. This paper reviews the literature on macroeconomic vulnerability and finds that … there is no single approach to understanding macroeconomic vulnerability in the context of financial and economic crises in …
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Much research to date has tended to view vulnerability by discipline or sector, yet individuals and households …-dimensional vulnerability is likely to become an increasingly important concept if the outlook over the next 15 to 25 years is one of multiple … intellectual strands involved in multi-dimensional vulnerability analysis. In light of the above, this paper reviews the literature …
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Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … vulnerability. A theoretical framework is developed to examine the mechanisms through which the pecuniary and non-pecuniary effects …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …
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We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …
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The paper traces the evolution the concept of socioeconomic vulnerability to climate change has followed in the … academic and scientific debate. The recent recognition of vulnerability as a social construction has shifted the focus of the …
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environmental problem, but it cannot solve it by itself leading the vulnerability of the country to almost zero. Our results show …
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