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Dirty Dance : Tourism and Environment
Cevik, Serhan - 2022
Tourism was one of the fastest-growing sectors before the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for about 10 percent of global GDP. But it has also created a number of challenges including environmental degradation, especially in small island countries where the carbon footprint of tourism constitute...
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Welfare vs. Income Convergence and Environmental Externalities
Bannister, Geoffrey J. - 2018
We present estimates of welfare by country for 2007 and 2014 using the methodology of Jones and Klenow (2016) which incorporates consumption, leisure, mortality and in equality, and we extend the methodology to include environmental externalities. During the period of the global financial crisis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929937
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Distributional Implications of Labor Market Reforms : Learning from Spain's Experience
Stepanyan, Ara - 2020
Spain's structural reforms, implemented around 2012, have arguably contributed to a faster and stronger economic …
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Productivity Growth and Value Chains in Four European Countries
Karpowicz, Izabela - 2020
Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis that is accompanied in recent years by a withdrawal from trade integration processes. We study the determinants of productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840610
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Effectiveness and Equity in Social Spending - The Case of Spain
Vtyurina, Svetlana - 2020
Spain is experiencing sustained economic and social disparities in several areas. Social spending policies have a …
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Drivers of Spain's Export Performance and the Role of the Labor Market Reforms
Salas, Jorge - 2019
Spain's export performance strengthened after the global financial crisis, and exports now represent more than a third … indicators, those labor market reforms are estimated to account for nearly one-tenth to above one-quarter of Spain's total export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892912
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Regional Labor Mobility in Spain
Liu, Lucy Qian - 2019
This paper studies the main factors that explain the low regional mobility in Spain, with a view to identifying policy … market conditions, and the pervasiveness of labor market duality at the regional level are the main determinants for Spain …
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On the Determinants of Fiscal Non-Compliance : An Empirical Analysis of Spain's Regions
Delgado-Téllez, Mar - 2017
targets on the basis of economic, institutional, and political factors. The framework is applied to Spain's Autonomous … Communities (regions) over the period 2002-2015. Fiscal noncompliance among Spain's regions has shown to be persistent. It … containing fiscal non-compliance. Reducing fiscal non-compliance in multilevel governance systems such as the one in Spain …
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Political Institutions, State Building, and Tax Capacity : Crossing the Tipping Point
Gaspar, Vitor - 2017
paper, we attempt via four case studies - Spain, China, Colombia, and Nigeria - to illustrate that the improvements in tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965070
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Resolving Residential Mortgage Distress : Time to Modify?
Andritzky, Jochen R. - 2015
experiences from Iceland, Ireland, Spain, and the United States, this paper discusses how economic trade-offs affecting mortgage …
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