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ACCESS Magazine Spring 2003
Cervero, Robert; Gottlieb, Robert; Hall, Peter V.; … - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 2003
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Decarbonising cities: Assessing governance approaches for transformative change
Roll, Michael; von Haldenwang, Christian; Grohmann, … - 2022
study contributes to the theoretical and empirical discussions in the field of transformative urban governance by suggesting …
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Household fuel choice in urban Kenya: A multinomial logit analysis
Waweru, David; Mose, Naftaly - In: Financial Internet Quarterly 18 (2022) 2, pp. 30-41
determine the fuel choices and patterns of cooking fuels in urban Kenyan households. The results showed that in addition to …
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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan Gatewood - 2022
The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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Onlinehandel: Arbeitskontrolle und Mitbestimmung in Großstadtregionen
Fuchs, Martina; Dannenberg, Peter; Riedler, Tim; … - 2023
Im Onlinehandel wurden schnelle und große Investitionen getätigt, um rasch eine starke Marktposition zu erreichen. Dies ist mit einem hohen Zeit- und Kostendruck verbunden, der entlang der Wertschöpfungskette strukturierend wirkt und die Arbeitskontrolle verändert. Digitale Arbeitskontrolle...
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Retail Strategies to Support Healthy Eating
Moran, Alyssa (contributor);  … - 2020
In January 2020, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), The Food Trust, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Healthy Eating Research (HER) met for a Healthy Retail Research Convention in Washington, D.C. Attendees included food industry representatives,...
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How and Why the Gender Pension Gap in Urban China Decreased between 1988 and 2018
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Zhang, Peng; Jia, Hanrui - 2023
In urban China, gender gaps in employment and earnings have steadily increased since the 1990s. Such gender gaps are … demonstrates, despite the rise in gender differences in the urban labor market, the average gender pension gap decreased between … 1988 and 2018. In the paper, we describe the evolution of the fragmented pension system in urban China using a quantitative …
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Do Cities Mitigate or Exacerbate Environmental Damages to Health?
Molitor, David; White, Corey - 2023
Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is … theoretically ambiguous: while urban areas have traditionally been associated with heightened exposure to environmental pollutants …, the economies of scale and density inherent to urban environments offer unique opportunities for mitigating or adapting to …
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Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies
Chen, Liming; Hasan, Rana; Jiang, Yi; Parkhomenko, Andrii - 2023
We study the interaction between transit improvements and land use policies in the context of Bengaluru, one of India's largest cities. The city inaugurated a metro system in 2011. Yet it has low building heights even near metro stations, reflecting low floor-area ratio limits. We construct a...
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Education in rural areas: A statistical approach
Dinculescu, Corina-Georgeta - 2022
terms of ensuring adequate infrastructure for a quality education or at least comparable to that in the urban area - clean …
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