This Policy Brief offers a comprehensive evaluation and comparison of the regulatory frameworks governing platform work … Forum (WEF) on the principles of good regulation. Adapting this research to the context of digital platforms, three key … principles for assessing the regulation of working conditions on these platforms were identified: (i) the consistency with the …

We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general … afford private mitigation of the adverse consequences of pollution is a central feature of the analysis. Private mitigation … leads to an endogenous, unequal distribution of the health-related consequences of pollution across income groups in a …

We explore the links between migration of labour and location specific (urban) pollution, suggesting a sense in which … pollution can be welfare improving. In a conventional Harris-Todaro model of urban-rural migration, individuals migrate so as to … endogenously determined. Interpreting unemployment as damage, urban pollution (damage denoted in units of labour) can also support …

We estimate the impact of fiscal decentralization on different indicators of pollution for more than 80 countries from … 1970 to 2000. Our cross country estimates show that fiscal decentralization increases pollution. However, higher quality of …

This paper studies Krugman's (1991) core-periphery model and extends it to include environmental pollution. We present … local environmental pollution, a third and more realistic type of equilibrium may occur in which most of the manufacturing …

covering the period 1982-1997. The types of pollution included in the studyare wastewater, waste gas and solid waste. We … consider the development of the sources ofpollution in a pooled cross-section analysis considering the pollution in absolute … emissions tends to decelerate, but accelerates again at high levels of GDP per capita.Water pollution decreases with per capita …

equilibrium framework. We investigate the impact of pollution by focusing on the interaction between location advantages and … negative pollution externalities associated with local production. We distinguish between two goods (food and manufactures) and … activity tends to become less attractive with pollution, and thus less likely. Moreover, we provide a simple necessary and …

, and experience both industrial pollution and natural resource degradation. We present a model that incorporates these …