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The direct impact of climate change on regional labour productivity

Kjellstrom, Tord; Kovats, R. Sari; Lloyd, Simon J.; … - 2008

Global climate change will increase outdoor and indoor heat loads, and may impair health and productivity for millions of working people. This study applies physiological evidence about effects of heat, climate guidelines for safe work environments, climate modelling and global distributions of...

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Experience with market-based environmental policy instruments

Stavins, Robert N. - 2002

"instruments" - of environmental policy, and considers, in particular, experience around the world with the relatively new breed of … categories: charge systems; tradable permits; market friction reductions; and government subsidy reductions. Within charge …. Finally, under reducing government subsidies, I review a number of specific examples from around the world. By defining market …

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Environmental policy instruments in a new era

Huppes, Gjalt - 2001

The aim of this paper is to give a long term sustainability perspective on instrumentation in environmental policy, within a broad, also strategic, evaluative framework. To arrive at integrated insight, the basic function of policy instruments is discussed: why do you need them at all and how...

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Climate Policy and the Intertemporal Supply of Fossil Resources

Beermann, Christian - 2015

interaction between a climate coalition that can either be global or incomplete, comprising only a subset of the world’s countries …

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A view on the long-run evolution of hours worked and labor productivity in Switzerland (1950 - 2010)

Siegenthaler, Michael - 2012

The discussion about the long-run evolution of labor productivity in Switzerland is flawed because the available data on the input of labor is incoherent and incomplete. It is the aim of this paper to establish a consistent aggregate series of total hours worked covering 1950-2010. The new data...

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Carbon tax scenarios and their effects on the Irish energy sector

Di Cosmo, Valeria; Hyland, Marie - 2011

In this paper we use annual time series data from 1960 to 2008 to estimate the long run price and income elasticities underlying energy demand in Ireland. The Irish economy is divided into five sectors: residential, industrial, commercial, agricultural and transport, and separate energy demand...

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Social Capital and Labour Productivity in Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - 2006

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...

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Environmental Efficiency, Emission Trends and Labour Productivity: Trade-Off or Joint Dynamics? Empirical Evidence Using NAMEA Panel Data

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - 2007

The paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between environmental efficiency and labour productivity using industry level data. We first provide a critical and extensive discussion around the interconnected issues of environmental efficiency and performance, firm performances...

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Exports and productivity growth: first evidence from a continuous treatment approach

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2007

A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...

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How to avoid a pension crisis: a question of intelligent system design

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...

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