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Scarce information and human capital may make it difficult for residents of developing countries to produce accurate forecasts, limiting responses to uncertain future events like air pollution. We study two randomized interventions in Lahore, Pakistan: 1) provision of air pollution forecasts; 2)...
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Scarce information and human capital may make it difficult for residents of developing countries to produce accurate forecasts, limiting responses to uncertain future events like air pollution. We study two randomized interventions in Lahore, Pakistan: 1) provision of air pollution forecasts; 2)...
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As environmental performance is increasingly seen to have an influence over financial performance and financial risk assessment, disclosure of environmental issues in the Annual Reports is a fundamental requirement for a company in order to satisfy the information needs of its stakeholders....
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Increased spatial dependency of economic activities, as well as spatial differentiation of production and consumption, has implication for environmental policy. One of the issues that has gained importance is the responsibility for the emissions from products that cross national boundaries...
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Increased spatial dependency of economic activities, as well as spatial differentiation of production and consumption, has implication for environmental policy. One of the issues that has gained importance is the responsibility for the emissions from products that cross national boundaries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327844
workers is driven not by natives leaving unions, but by the different composition of turnover depending on the share of …
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workers is driven not by natives leaving unions, but by the different composition of turnover depending on the share of …
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literature suggests that working time accounts reduce turnover and inhibit increase in unemployment during recessions. In a model … of optimal choice of hours by a firm I show that working time account does not necessarily guarantee lower turnover …. Turnover may be reduced or increased depending on whether a firm meets economic downturn with surplus or deficit of hours and …
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We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created discontinuities in raises, where workers earning within 1 cent of each other received new wages that...
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