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Open AccessJoint impacts of immigration on wages and employment: review and meta-analysis
A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In this paper, we outline the quantitative approaches presented in the literatur...
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New Explanatory Models for Analyzing Spatial Innovation: A Comparative Investigation
The period of the 1980s and 1990s has witnessed a profound interest in innovation research. At first, we have seen much attention for technological innovations as part of a long-term cycle based on Schumpeteri...
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Benefits and costs of transport
This article aims to bring together insights from a broad body of recent literature concerned with the nature, the measurement and policy implications of benefits and costs of transport. It is argued that, fo...
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Environmental Decision Making: A Comparison Between Cost-Benefit Analysis and Multicriteria Decision Aid
The growth of world population and the rapid growth of economic activity have caused environmental stress in all socio-economic systems. The report by the World Commission on Environment and Development “Our C...
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Cultural Heritage and Urban Revitalization: A Meta-Analytic Approach to Urban Sustainability
This paper will address the issue of cultural heritage and urban revitalization based on a comparative meta-analytic approach regarding European urban policy experiences.
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Air Quality and Property Value
Since the beginning of the 1970s environmental economists have devoted considerable effort to assessing the cost of environmental damage and the benefits of environmental policy. The economic concept of value ...
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Meta-Approaches to Environmental Policy Assessment
Concern with environmental quality is, and is likely to remain, a central component of socio-economic policy formulation and debate. The intensity of concern and the particular aspects of the environment which...
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Effectiveness of Pesticide Price Policies in Agriculture
The intensive use of pesticides in agricultural production in large parts of the world has been one of the key factors contributing to increased yields. There is an increasing concern, however, about the impac...
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Impacts of Mobility and Transport Policy
Transport does not only create congestion in many countries, but also imposes itself in many other ways on society. The environmental impacts range from local effects such as traffic noise, odour, vibration, l...
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Environmental Policy Evaluation
Environmental policy analysis is increasingly addressing quality of life issues at the regional and sector levels. The idea of meso level environmental policies and strategies is becoming established in North-...
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Working Conditions in Industrial Sectors: Valuations of Life
As part of the process in deciding about public policy and private management to reduce danger at work, most previous studies have adopted compensating values. This assumes that society or individuals implicit...
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Meta-Approaches: Methodological Remarks
Meta-analysis seems to be an appealing approach, but despite its potential there are several questions of a methodological nature which need to be addressed in greater detail. In this chapter the methodologica...
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Effectiveness of Traffic Restraint Policies
Public policy regarding the urban transport problem has undergone important changes over the past thirty years. From one perspective the perception of the urban transport problem has widened, as issues such as...
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Statistical Meta-Analysis
In the previous chapters the general concept of meta-analysis was discussed. This chapter is devoted to one particular group of statistical techniques which can be used for a meta-analysis. These are the techn...
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Summary Conclusions and Guidelines
Policy-makers are increasingly confronted with various and often seemingly diverse results from a large number of studies of environmental phenomena. Much the same holds for analysts working on more technical ...
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Basic Principles of Rough Set Analysis
The aim of this chapter is to present, in a non-technical form, the most important theoretical and applicational aspects of rough sets (Pawlak, 1982, 1991; Slowinski, 1992a). This new instrument of analysis ha...
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Multiplier Effects in Tourist Regions
In a way, meta-analysis may be conceived of as quasi-controlled laboratory experimentation with a limited sample of observations drawn under different conditions. This means that meta-analysis has to investiga...
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Review of Meta-Analysis with Applications to Economics
After the previous introductory chapters we will now treat in more detail the essence of meta-analysis. The term meta-analysis was first introduced by Glass in 1976, although the idea of analyzing statisticall...
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Measurement and Uncertainty Issues in Environmental Economics and Decision Analysis
This chapter deals with the relationship between uncertainty, measurement theory, and decisions in the context of meta-analysis. The potential usefulness of meta-analysis in environmental science and economics...
