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Importing Air Pollution? Evidence from China's Plastic Waste Imports

Unfried, Kerstin; Wang, Feicheng - 2022

Plastic waste trade has grown considerably in the last decades and has caused severe environmental problems in recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on...

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Trade Policy Uncertainty, Offshoring, and the Environment: Evidence from US Manufacturing Establishments

Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023

We study long-run environmental impacts of trade liberalization on US manufacturing by exploiting a plausibly exogenous reduction in US trade policy uncertainty: the conferral of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China. Using detailed data on establishment-level pollution emissions and...

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A Review of the Circular Economy and its Implementation

Heshmati, Almas - 2015

Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...

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Navigating Cleaner Waters: Waste Import and Water Pollution

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Zhang, Zhuo; Zhou, Weina - 2025

This paper examines the causal impacts of reducing solid waste imports on water quality in China, which was the world's largest importer of waste until recently. We focus on the National Sword policy, introduced at the end of 2017, which abruptly banned the import of plastics, textiles, vanadium...

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Nautical Patrol and Illegal Fishing Practices

Kastoryano, Stephen; Vollaard, Ben - 2022

We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...

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Does Wage Theft Vary by Demographic Group? Evidence from Minimum Wage Increases

Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R. - 2023

Using Current Population Survey data, we assess whether and to what extent the burden of "wage theft" - wage payments below the statutory minimum wage - falls disproportionately on various demographic groups following minimum wage increases. For most racial and ethnic groups at most ages we find...

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The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border

Gathmann, Christina - 2004

This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using … a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and … punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforcement on smuggling prices is small. Though enforcement has more than …

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The Effect of Inspector Group Size and Familiarity on Enforcement and Deterrence

Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Staubli, Stefan; Cohen, Mark A. - 2013

The paper provides new insights into the productivity of teams and the relationship between the inspector and the inspected party. Exploiting exogenous variation in the number of inspectors that are sent to offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, we find that adding an inspector...

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Effect of Enforcement Shock on Pushers' Activities: Evidence from an Asian Drug-Selling Gang

Leong, Kaiwen; Li, Huailu; Xu, Haibo - 2019

quantities of drugs during periods of enforcement shocks caused by enforcement activities targeting the gang's drug supply chain …. This counter-intuitive finding can be explained by the pushers' profit targeting behavior. Given that enforcement shocks …

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Understanding "Wage Theft": Evasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases

Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R. - 2019

strength of enforcement regimes affect the prevalence of subminimum wage payments. We find strong evidence that higher minimum … enforcement regimes play an important role in shaping both baseline compliance rates and the response of compliance to increases …

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