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Human Rights, Environmental Justice, and the North-South Divide
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2016
Communities disparately burdened by environmental degradation are increasingly framing their demands for environmental justice in the language of environmental human rights. However, some scholars have expressed skepticism about the environmental human rights project. First, they remind us that...
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Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality : Evidence from the Global Climate
Dingel, Jonathan I. - 2019
This paper shows that greater global spatial correlation of productivities can increase cross-country welfare dispersion by increasing the correlation between a country's productivity and its gains from trade. We causally validate this general-equilibrium prediction using a global climatic...
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Environmental Kuznets Curves in the People’s Republic of China : Turning Points and Regional Differences
Jiang, Yi; Lin, Tun; Zhuang, Juzhong - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability in China by empirically estimating the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) models using provincial-level panel data from 1985 to 2005. The results show that there exists an inverted-U shape relationship...
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On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes
Conte, Bruno; Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A unilateral carbon tax trades off the distortionary costs of taxation and the future gains from slowing down global warming. Because the cost is local and immediate, whereas the benefit is global and delayed, this tradeoff tends to be unfavorable to unilateral carbon taxes. We show that this...
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Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China : exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills
Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016
In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...
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Agglomeration, inequality and economic growth : cross-section and panel data analysis
Castells Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - 2012
specifications and introducing different measures for agglomeration at country level, especially urbanization and urban concentration …
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Urban development in China : on the sorting of skills
Brakman, Steven; Hu, Shiwei; Marrewijk, Charles van - In: Journal of international trade & economic development : … 30 (2021) 6, pp. 793-817
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Spatial nature of urban well-being
Ala-Mantila, Sanna; Heinonen, Jukka; Junnila, Seppo; … - In: Regional studies 52 (2018) 7, pp. 959-973
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The specifics and spatial structure of circular migration in Russia
Machrova, Alla G.; Nefedova, Tatʹjana Grigorʹevna; … - In: Eurasian geography and economics 57 (2016) 6, pp. 802-818
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Urbanization and economic development in Russia
Kolomak, Evgenija A. - 2012
The paper studies trends in the urbanization in Russia and compares them with the global ones. Russia has high level of … urbanization, urban population reached 73% in 1990, and the rate of urbanization fluctuates around this level past 20 years. The …, 1999, and 2004. The paper discusses advantages and disadvantages of the urbanization to the economic development and …
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