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The Risks of the Wrong Climate Policy for Developing Countries : Scenarios for South Africa

Omer, Ozlem; Capaldo, Jeronim - 2023

In this paper, a demand-driven growth model is used to explore climate change scenarios faced by the South African economy. The focus is on key macroeconomic variables including employment, productivity, income distribution, trade, and fiscal balances. Results show that emission reduction alone...

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Wildfire Crime and Social Vulnerability in Italy : A Panel Investigation

Canepa, Alessandra - 2020

In this paper, we analyse the socio–economic determinants of wildfire crime in Italy through panel data at the regional … vulnerability factors such as poverty, organised crime and inequality in income play an important role in driving wildfire crime … Italian peninsula. Finally, we also extend our analysis to investigate the effect of economic downturns on wildfire crime and …

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Impact of income shock on children’s schooling and labor in a West African country

Fatoke-Dato, Mafaïzath A. - 2015

significant decrease in income for farm households following the shock. The income shock affected enrollment of girls the most … this income shock. These results imply that income shocks could be a threat to the Universal Primary Education. …

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Coping with increasing tides: technological change, agglomeration dynamics and climate hazards in an agent-based evolutionary model

Taberna, Alessandro; Filatova, Tatiana; Roventini, Andrea; … - 2021

By 2050 about 70% of the world's population is expected to live in cities. Cities offer spatial economic advantages that boost agglomeration forces and innovation, fostering further concentration of economic activities. For historic reasons urban clustering occurs along coasts and rivers, which...

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Cluster externalities, firm capabilities, and the recessionary shock : how the macro-to-micro-transition shapes firm performance during stable times and times of crisis

Hundt, Christian; Holtermann, Linus; Steeger, Jonas; … - 2019

macroeconomic instability caused by the recessionary shock of 2008/2009. Using data from 16,166 manufacturing and business services …

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Hierarchically structured determinants and phaserelated patterns of economic resilience : an empirical case study for European regions

Holtermann, Linus; Hundt, Christian - 2018

Our paper seeks to provide empirical evidence for a spatial-temporal system of (short-term) regional resilience determinants. Based on groundwork from Martin (2012) and Martin and Sunley (2015), we employ a nested hierarchy of regional and national determinants to constitute the spatial...

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Identifying regional labor demand shocks using sign restrictions

Juessen, Falko; Linnemann, Ludger - 2012

We propose using sign restrictions to identify regional labor demand shocks in a panel VAR of US federal states. Observed migration responds significantly, but less persistently than the residual-based migration measure constructed by Blanchard and Katz (1992). -- regional labor markets ;...

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Cluster Externalities, Firm Capabilities, and the Recessionary Shock : How the Macro-to-Micro-Transition Shapes Firm Performance During Stable Times and Times of Crisis

Hundt, Christian - 2019

macroeconomic instability caused by the recessionary shock of 2008/2009. Using data from 16,166 manufacturing and business services …

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Identifying Regional Labor Demand Shocks Using Sign Restrictions

Juessen, Falko - 2012

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The role of livestock portfolios and group-based approaches for building resilience in the face of accelerating climate change : an asset-based panel data analysis from rural Kenya

Ngigi, Marther W.; Büttner, Ulrike; Birner, Regina - 2015

This study examines the impact of multiple shocks on assets by employing two waves of a panel data set of 360 rural households in three agro-ecological zones in Kenya. To control for unobserved heterogeneity, a "within" household fixed effects model was employed. One major finding is that...

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