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The long-term impact of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on wage distribution
Ōtake, Fumio; Okuyama, Naoko; Sasaki, Masaru; Yasui, Kengo - 2014
This paper explores the effects of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on the wages of people in the area of the … earthquake over the 17 years after its occurrence and identified which part of the wage distribution has been most affected by … shows that the negative impact of the earthquake still affects the mean wages of male workers. Second, the DFL decomposition …
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Estimating the direct economic damage of the earthquake in Haiti
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Powell, Andrew; Becerra, Oscar - 2010
January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead … and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the earthquake is estimated to have caused) using Haiti s economic and …
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Lucrative disaster : financialization, accumulation and postearthquake reconstruction in Nepal
Paudel, Dinesh; Rankin, Katharine N.; Le Billon, Philippe - In: Economic geography 96 (2020) 2, pp. 137-160
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Post-disaster spillovers : evidence from Iranian provinces
Fischer, Sven - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 5, pp. 1-26
account the disaster type, which is mainly earthquake and flood in the case of Iran, the results suggest that the positive …
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The effects of major earthquakes on the labor market : evidence from Turkiye
Dolu, Aslı; Ikizler, Hüseyin - 2022
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Natural disasters, growth and institutions : a tale of two earthquakes
Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - 2013
We examine the impact of natural disasters on economic growth by applying a synthetic control approach. In contrast to previous literature, we adopt a within-country perspective, which allows us to use richer and more comparable data and to better define the geographic area hit by the disaster....
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General equilibrium analysis of regional redistributive effects of investment for reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake
Nakajima, Kazunori; Sakamoto, Naoki - 2015
. After the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, government investment in the disaster stricken areas was provided for … in this study are shown below. 1) By collapsed private capital stocks due to the earthquake, real GDP was estimated to … areas before the earthquake. Also, welfare was estimated to decrease in 109 trillion dollars per year in total and to …
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Long run effects and intergenerational transmission of natural disasters : a case study on the 1970 Ancash Earthquake
Caruso, Germán; Miller, Sebastián - In: Journal of development economics 117 (2015), pp. 134-150
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Natural disasters and human mobility
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2016
This paper reviews the effect of natural disasters on human mobility or migration. Although there is an increase of natural disasters and migration recently and more patterns to observe, the relationship remains complex. While some authors find that disasters increase migration, others show that...
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