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Index of harm: a measure for comparing occupational risk across industries
Solomon, K.A.; Abraham, S.C. - 2008
This areport explores the implications of an index-of-harm methodology that compares occupational risks among workers exposed to radiological and nonradiological harms. It extends the work of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) by considering American rather than...
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Uber and Metropolitan Traffic Fatalities in the United States
Brazil, Noli - 2016
episodes of drunk driving and the 10,000 resulting traffic fatalities that occur annually in the United States. We exploit … Uber's rideshare services and total, drunk driving-related, and weekend and holiday-specific traffic fatalities in the 100 … the deployment of Uber services in a given metropolitan county had no association with the number of subsequent traffic …
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The Grass is Greener on the Other Side : How Extensive is the Interstate Trafficking of Recreational Marijuana?
Hansen, Benjamin - 2018
. We also test if these inter-state spill-overs led to health externalities by studying traffic accidents in Oregon from …
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Legal Access to Marijuana and Motor Vehicle Fatalities in the United States, 1990--2019
Leung, Gregory; Dutra, Jessica - 2021
fatalities. The results show that legalization of medical marijuana laws are associated with a decrease in traffic fatalities by … 6.87 percent, while there is no statistically significant change in traffic fatalities rate after the legalization of …
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Transnational trafficking, law enforcement and victim protection: A middleman trafficker's perspective
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Bedi, Arjun S.; Basu, Arnab K.; … - 2011
We explore three hitherto poorly understood characteristics of the human trafficking market - the cross-border ease of mobility of traffickers, the relative bargaining strength of traffickers and final buyers, and the elasticity of buyers' demand. In a model of two-way bargaining, the exact...
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Politics, unemployment, and the enforcement of immigration law
Makowsky, Michael D.; Stratmann, Thomas - 2012
Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of laws and regulations. They are also determined by the incentives faced by vote-maximizing congressmen, agents acting on their behalf, and workers likely to compete with...
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U.S. border enforcement and the net flow of Mexican illegal migration
Angelucci, Manuela (contributor) - 2005
This paper investigates the effect of U.S. border enforcement on the net flow of Mexican undocumented migration. It shows how this effect is theoretically ambiguous, given that increases in border controls deter prospective migrants from crossing the border illegally, but lengthen the duration...
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Can Blockchain Technologies Resolve the U.S. Antitrust Enforcement Problem?
Massarotto, Giovanna - 2022
The U.S. antitrust enforcement mechanism is criticized for being ill-adapted to ensuring competition in digital platforms. In the U.S., several bills have been introduced in Congress with the aim to create a new antitrust regulatory framework for digital platforms. This paper proposes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076796
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Twitter and crime : the effect of social movements on gender-based violence
Battisti, Michele; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Rude, Britta - 2022
This paper asks whether social movements taking place on Twitter affect gender-based violence (GBV). Using Twitter data and machine learning methods, we construct a novel data set on the prevalence of Twitter conversations about GBV. We then link this data to weekly crime reports at the federal...
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The Impact of Fear on Police Behavior and Public Safety
Cho, Sungwoo; Gonçalves, Felipe; Weisburst, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine how changes in the salience of workplace risk affect police behavior and public safety. Specifically, we … harm public safety …
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