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Autonomous vehicles in urban agglomerations

open access: yesTransportation Research Procedia, 2019
Abstract Autonomous vehicles have been of particular interest in the world for more than half a century. Recently, one can even observe the intensification of research and implementation works on this type of vehicles and transport systems. In the article the authors will refer to the following problems: Definitions of the different types of ...
Choromański Włodzimierz   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Climate Change and Energy Security Risk: Do Green Patents, Institutional Quality, and Human Capital Make a Difference?

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change poses a significant threat to global energy security, yet the mechanisms through which this relationship unfolds—and the factors that buffer their adverse impacts—remain underexplored. This study examines the link between climate change, proxied by CO2 emissions, and energy security risk (ESR), with a particular focus on the ...
Mohamed Sami Ben Ali   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing Trade‐Offs of Net Zero Carbon Transitions Through Entrepreneurship and Coordinated Innovation: A Spatially Disaggregated Analysis Across Countries and World Regions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transition processes towards a sustainable future benefit from historic perspectives, since feasible changes of socio‐technological conditions and processes depend on a holistic assessment of how actors are embedded in existing institutions, routines, and structures. Building on the Income–Population–Affluence–Technology equation and utilizing
Jessica Kluge, Marcus Wagner
wiley   +1 more source

Unlocking Financial Inclusion: The Dynamics of Bank Account Ownership in Urban Slums

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Financial inclusion is a key driver of sustainable development, contributing to poverty reduction (SDG 1), gender equality (SDG 5), and reduced inequalities (SDG 10). Despite extensive financial‐inclusion policies in India, residents of urban slums remain largely excluded from formal banking systems.
Davide Moro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Having Experience of What to Do to Succeed”: Unsettling Neoliberalism Through the Lived Experiences of Microcredit Trader‐Borrowers in Ibadan

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neoliberal market‐oriented approaches to solving social and economic problems defined as “poverty” have received much attention in anthropology and allied disciplines such as sociology and geography and among development studies scholars and practitioners.
Olubukola Olayiwola
wiley   +1 more source

Do digital platforms create entrepreneurial opportunities? Evidence from marginal areas

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This article enters the debate on the effects of digital platforms on entrepreneurial opportunities by estimating whether the entry of a home‐sharing platform shapes entrepreneurial decisions in marginal areas. We add a novel perspective to the literature, as we contend that when economic conditions are unfavorable, digital ...
Francesco Luigi Milone   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agglomeration economies and urban productivity

open access: yesREGION, 2019
This study explores the relationship between agglomeration economies and industrial productivity between 1980 and 2010 in Ecuador. The measure of productivity used is labour productivity. We conclude that urbanization economies have a positive impact on productivity in the period analyzed.
Torres Gutierrez, Tania Paola   +1 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Urban Agglomerations Promote the Coordinated Development of Urbanization and Intensive Land Use

open access: yesLand
As a geographical development mode, can urban agglomeration solve the problem of intensive land use that cannot be solved on the urban scale? What is the degree of balanced development between urbanization and intensive land use?
Meng Zhang, Xiaoyang Li, Zhaohua Lu
doaj   +1 more source

Local labor market frictions and platform‐based entrepreneurship

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Building on prior research about the heterogeneous impact of labor shocks on individuals' propensity to start businesses, we explore how local labor market frictions affect individuals' selection into platform‐based entrepreneurship.
Ruiqing Cao, Yifan Lyu
wiley   +1 more source

Minimum Wages and Homelessness

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Economic theory offers competing predictions about how minimum wage policies might affect homelessness. While minimum wages might reduce homelessness by raising incomes, they could also trigger employment disruptions and negative income shocks identified in the literature as proximate causes of homelessness.
Seth J. Hill
wiley   +1 more source

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