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Empirical studies show that women are under-represented in highly paid top management positions of firms (glass-ceiling effect) which could be a cause of the gender wage gap. In order to study women's career paths, we develop a search and matching model where job ladders consist of three...
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We study optimal promotion decisions of hierarchical firms, with one junior and one senior managerial position, which interact in a search and matching labour market. Workers acquire experience over time while being employed in a junior position and the firm has to determine the experience level...
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In the past few years permit trading has become a popular policy instrument to achieve emissions reductions or other environmental goals at minimal cost. There are already a number of existing regimes on firm as well as on national level in which permits for SO2, NOX and CO2 emissions but also...
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This paper carries out an empirical test of the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis with Bulgarian data on pollution …
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Strategic plans in the energy sector have the overall objective of the use of renewable energy, especially wind power, hydroelectricity, biomass intending a considerable increase in the share it has in total energy production. Thus, chase is moving towards an economy based on low carbon...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the welfare effects of pollution abatement technology transfer in a two …-good two-country model with transboundary pollution. In each country, one industry emits pollution as a joint product of output … and the sum of domestic and cross-border pollution decreases productivity of the other industry. Then, we show that …
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the trans-border transfer of the pollution of sea water into the regions, where there is no oil production. First of all … - Bulgaria, Rumania, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Turkey and Greece, directed toward the decrease of the threat of the pollution of … forced have the national system of monitoring the pollution of sea water in their sector of Black sea. Will be first of all …
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The paper estimates the effect of SO2 pollution on infant mortality in Germany, 1985-2003. To avoid simultaneity … translate into an elasticity of 0.08-0.13. The observed reduction in pollution implies an annual gain of 895-1528 infant lives …. Estimates are robust to controls for economic activity, climate, reunification effects, rural/urban trends and TSP pollution and …
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between economic growth and industrial pollution emissions in China using … Taiwan from those of other foreign economies. We examine four industrial water pollution indicators (wastewater, chemical … oxygen demand, hexavalent chromium compounds, and petroleum-like matter) and four industrial air pollution indicators (waste …
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There's no doubt that the risk factors typical of a certain lifestyle which may have a negative impact on human health are numerous, especially considering that research in health (medicine, pharmacology etc) were focused on their determination, but especially on the cause-effect relationship....
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