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Home Safe Home: Safety Gains Through Telework During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
LABOUR, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper exploits exogenous shifts in work organisation during the Covid‐19 pandemic to study the implications of hybrid and remote work arrangements on occupational safety. Combining accident registers and household survey microdata from Hungary, we are able to address potential selection and reporting bias, and reliably identify the ...
Bálint Menyhért, Szilárd Erhart
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Working Paper 13-10 - Electric cars: Back to the future? [PDF]
The main objective of the paper is to evaluate the development of the EV in a couple of selected energy scenarios, to address the influence climate policy and the presence of nuclear energy can have on this development and to estimate the impact of ...
Danielle Devogelaer, Dominique Gusbin
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Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2014, Indonesia took a large step toward Universal Health Coverage and protection from the economic risk of illness—previous health insurance schemes were joined aiming to cover the entire population. This reform made it the largest single‐payer public health insurance scheme worldwide, which covered approximately 77% of Indonesian ...
Lisa Rogge
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Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines [PDF]
Female "empowerment" has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women ...
Dean Karlan, Nava Ashraf, Wesley Yin
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TECHNOLOGICAL GOVERNANCE IN ASEAN – FAILINGS IN TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND DOMESTIC RESEARCH [PDF]
Technological governance has only been partially successful for technological upgrading in the five ASEAN countries discussed, with the exception of Singapore.
Palonka, Krystyna, Sigurdson, Jon
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Climate‐Smart Agricultural Assets and Household Coping Strategies in Times of Upheaval
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transferring agricultural assets can be welfare‐improving for smallholders. Can agricultural assets also improve smallholders' ability to cope with unprecedented exogenous shocks? We investigate this question using the case of subsidized solar‐powered irrigation pumps (SIP) during the time of upheaval (COVID‐19 pandemic) in Nepal.
Kashi Kafle, Marie‐Charlotte Buisson
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TRENDS OF EMPLOYMENT IN INFORMAL SECTOR IN ROMANIA DURING CRISIS;ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS [PDF]
The present paper emphasizes the size and trend of employment in the informal sector as affected during the recent years by the crisis and by showing the relation with informal economy. The paper is structured on three parts.
Pisica Silvia, Vasile Valentina
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The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers an alternative understanding to the therapeutic experiences of human interactions with companion species, particularly dogs and horses, through a phenomenological discussion of more‐than‐human intersubjectivity. In an ethnographic account of residents of the Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia, the lived experience of
Katherine Joy Fletcher
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Short-Term Price Effects of a Carbon Tax and Implications for Sectors Competitiveness in Small Open Economies [PDF]
Asymmetric climate policies are expected to distort the level-playing field regarding international trade, singularly to the detriment of small open economies.
Nicolas Gonne
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Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract Older adults with reduced thermoregulatory capabilities are increasingly at risk of heat‐related pathophysiological outcomes (e.g., acute kidney injury, heatstroke) due to increasingly frequent, prolonged and intense heatwaves. Foot immersion and neck cooling have been proposed as practical, non‐electrical cooling strategies for protecting ...
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