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This article reviews the current debate about sick pay mandates and medical leave in the United States. The United States is one of three industrialized countries that do not guarantee access to paid sick leave for all employees. We first provide a categorization of the different paid leave...
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The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they can lead directly to adult physical health...
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The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they can lead directly to adult physical health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098377
of adaptation to climate change. In this paper we develop an economic framework for the study of adaptation which allows … us to distinguish between decentralized adaptation by private agents on the one hand and centralized adaptation measures … nascent field of adaptation to climate change requiring further empirical investigation. The economic framework is applied to …
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Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed … adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of … adaptation is provided, with focus on budgetary effects of adaptation in the different impact sectors. Combining cost estimates …
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damage expectations for the future. The latter effect can be interpreted as a 'climate adaptation signal' in the flood …
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Most empirical studies on private climate change adaptation rely on self-reported intentions which often fail to … gap (IBG) in climate change adaptation, which complicates the deduction of policy recommendations for stimulating … adaptation behavior. Using a large unique longitudinal survey data set from Germany covering more than 5,000 households, our …
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In the aftermath of natural disasters, governments frequently provide financial aid for affected households. This policy can have adverse effects if individuals anticipate it and forgo private precaution measures. While theoretical literature unequivocally suggests this so called "charity...
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impact of mitigation and adaptation finance on national emissions of recipient countries. We test the derived hypothesis … using carbon emissions data of non-OECD countries in the last 20 years. We find that public adaptation and mitigation …
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damage expectations for the future. The latter effect can be interpreted as a 'climate adaptation signal' in the flood …
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