The report highlights the precarious nature of gig work and dismantles the idea of ‘flexibility’ which has often been touted as the reason for popularity of the gig economy for workers across the globe and especially considered suitable for women workers. Workers continue to be deprived of...

Online labour platforms are redefining the world of work, but little is known even now about the drivers of worker engagement in this type of activity. Earlier studies focused on individual preferences and job characteristics such as flexibility or low entry barriers, but the relative role of...

Using micro-data on six surveys the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1993-2022, Eurobarometer 1991-2022, the UK Covid Social Survey Panel, 2020-2022, the European Social Survey 2002-2020 and the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 we show...

The labour has been the hardest hit by COVID19 in all the countries of the World. While labour is broadly categorised into regular & salaried workers and casual workers in developed countries, we also have a third category of workers in developing countries, i.e., self-employed workers. In...

We test the influence of environmental regulation (ER) on the location decision of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) for a large sample of countries, sectors, and years using a structural gravity model. Our results confirm the pollution haven hypothesis in highly polluting sectors,...

With the emergence of pollution problems and the deepening of economic globalization, the interaction between environmental policies and international trade has attracted increasing attention. This study explores the influence and mechanism of environmental regulation on the clean product...

Nearly two-thirds of the world's poorest people reside in rural villages in low-income nations, where their major sources of income are subsistence farming and other natural resources. India has the second largest tribal population in the world . Tribal livelihood is always been a concern for...

We evaluate the expected impact of the anticipated International Maritime Organization’s regulatory regime that will cap CO2 emissions from global maritime shipping. Focusing on U.S. imports---for which we compile granular vessel, route, emission, and trade data---we structurally estimate a...

The role of Middlemen in rural areas is often controversial, mainly because of the positive or negative roles they play in the farmer's livelihood. This paper shows that Middlemen help farmers sell more efficiently, save time identifying dependable purchasers, and provide security because they...