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It is well established that women have lower income and wealth levels than men. These inequalities are most pronounced within heterosexual couples and grow once partners get married and have children.
Agnieszka Althaber +2 more
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On Gatekeepers and Structural Competition Problems
The Digital Age saw the rise of several rapidly growing digital platforms with substantial market shares, and this development is expected to continue. Europe is a large target market for these globally operating platforms, although the majority of the ...
Christian Rusche, Jan Büchel
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Conformism and Structural Change [PDF]
Using a simple, multisector model of endogenous growth, we show that commodity‐specific consumption externalities can be a source of structural change. When the degrees of consumption externalities are different between goods, each sector grows at a different rate.
Takeo Hori, Masako Ikefuji, Kazuo Mino
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Revisiting Growth of Brazilian Economy (1980-2012) [PDF]
The objective of this article is to analyze the causes of growth deceleration in the Brazilian economy initiated in the mid-1980s from a Keynesian-Structuralist perspective, according to which long-term growth is associated with structural change and ...
José Luis Oreiro +3 more
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Managing commodity booms: Dutch disease and economic performance
Commodity booms are usually associated with commodity-exporting countries suffering from real exchange rate appreciation and negative economic consequences, that is, Dutch disease.
Basil Oberholzer
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This paper addresses the extensive structural changes of the Rhenish coal-mining area in Germany. Coal mining was and still is a relevant economic activity throughout Europe and is the focus of many political and societal debates, as well as research ...
Stefan Greiving +2 more
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A Small Change in Structure, a Big Change in Flexibility
Studies of the rotational barrier energy of the amide bond using quantum computing and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) are focused mainly on its use as a model of the peptide bond. The results of these studies are valuable not only in terms of the fundamental conformational properties of amide bonds, but also in the design of molecular machines, which
Nikolay G. Vassilev, Ivo C. Ivanov
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The Effect of Structural Change on Labor Productivity Growth and Employment in the Philippines
Philippines is considered one of the fastest developing economies because of the growing service sector. This growth brought a significant change in the economic structure of the country which previously relied on the agricultural sector.
Mikhael Laurente
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Your Resilience is My Vulnerability: ‘Rules in Use’ in a Local Water Conflict
This paper uses an empirical analysis of a water conflict in the German state of Brandenburg to explore diverse constructions of vulnerability to water scarcity by local stakeholders.
Frank Sondershaus, Timothy Moss
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects the whole body and causes many extrapulmonary adverse effects, amongst which diaphragm dysfunction is one of the prominent manifestations.
Yuanyuan Cao +4 more
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