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Electricity prices, river temperatures and cooling water scarcity

McDermott, Grant R.; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2012

Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and increased river temperatures on German electricity prices...

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The dynamics of women's labour supply in developing countries

Bhalotra, Sonia; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010

but positive in Africa. We suggest that amongst reasons why African women behave differently are that the conventional … non-employment. In Africa, there is a decline in paid employment which overwhelms the rise in self-employment and this is …

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The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad

Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman; … - 2023

), have been studied relatively less, especially in Africa which remains the most vulnerable continent to CC. We focus on Lake …. For Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, and Niger – 25% of sub-Saharan Africa's population –, we construct a novel data set tracking …

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Public-Private Employment Choice, Wage Differentials and Gender in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - 2004

differentials in the public administration, state owned enterprises and the formal private wage sector in Turkey. Selectivity …

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Impact of the 1999 earthquakes on the outcome of the 2002 parliamentary election in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2008

The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, not only caused enormous amounts of death … sensitivity shown by the electorate to real and perceived corruption implies that corruption problem will be tractable in Turkey …

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Does private tutoring payoff?

Gurun, Ayfer; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2008

We assess the causal effect of private tutoring on the probability of university placement in Turkey. We find that …

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Hazard analysis of unemployment duration by gender in a developing country: The case of Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Taşçi, H. Mehmet - 2010

duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving … nature of unemployment in Turkey exhibits similarities to the unemployment in both the developed and the developing countries. …

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