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I analyze empirically the effects of both urban and industrial agglomeration on men’s andwomen’s search behavior and on the efficiency of matching. The analysis is based on the ItalianLabor Force Survey micro-data, which covers 520 randomly drawn Local Labor Market Areas(66 per cent of the...
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In recent years organically-grown produce for local markets has become more popular with consumers, and re-localising food chains has been put forward as a strategy for sustainable consumption due to the apparent benefits to local economies, communities, and environments. Notions of 'sustainable...
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' literature argues that sustainable consumption is characterised by five factors: localisation, reducing ecological footprints …
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This Policy Brief addresses the challenges that Ghana faces in implementing governance norms on international migration. Although Ghana has committed to the goals of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and the African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West African...
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Changing human behaviour can be crucial for the success of development policies. Understanding the drivers of behaviour and designing policies that are supported by target groups is thus key to development cooperation effectiveness. Moreover, considering the intended and potential unintended...
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formatting glitches. This affects all players in the localisation industry, from the end client to the language vendor to the … development and implementation of standards within the localisation industry, XLIFF in particular, may impact on the situation, so …
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to overallmanufacturing, we develop distance-based tests of localisation. In contrast to previous studies, our approach …% confidence level, (ii) localisation takes place mostly at small scales below 50 kilometres, (iii) the degree of localisation is … very skewed, and (iv) industries follow broad sectoral patterns with respect to localisation. Depending on the industry …
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Two auctions have been proposed in the literature for siting noxious facilities: the high-bid and the low-bid auctions. In this paper, we pursue the analysis of these auctions made by O'Sullivan [1993], where he concludes that the high-bid auction has the edge over the low-bid auction. We point...
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The twenty-first century wine industry is a very different one from that which dominated operations in the 1980s and 1990s. Production, distribution and marketing of wine are now colonised by an array of complex and intersecting dynamics. Primary among these is a growing demand among consumers...
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Le financement des grandes infrastructures de transport françaises implique de plus en plus les collectivités territoriales. En contrepartie, ces dernières attendent des retombées économiques liées à leurs constructions. En nous appuyant sur le cas de la Ligne à Grande Vitesse Sud Europe...
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