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Time use, college attainment, and the working-from-home revolution
I demonstrate that the profound change in working from home (WFH) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is concentrated among individuals with college...
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Industrial clusters and carbon emission reduction: evidence from China
In the context of carbon peaking and neutrality goals, this paper examines the impact of industrial clusters on firms’ carbon emissions based on...
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Comparative study of good governance on poverty reduction in Rwanda and Burundi
The framework of good governance, popular in the 1980s and 1990s, is considered to be one of the effective weapons of development in Africa. However,...
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Strategies for Emission Reduction in Construction: The Role of China’s Carbon Trading Market
Amidst global population growth and increased resource consumption, carbon emissions from the construction sector pose a significant environmental...
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Command thy blessing from above: vertically delegated carbon reduction targets and firm export performance in China
In large countries with complex political hierarchies, environmental regulations are often implemented in a top-down manner, sparking debates about...
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Immobility and COVID-19: comparing mobility reduction among socio-demographic groups in a large German city during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic and the public health measures imposed to tackle the spread of the virus have changed the everyday life and severely reduced...
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Automation and Working Time in the UK
This essay discusses the history of working time in the UK and why working hours, having consistently fallen since the mid-nineteenth century, have...
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Financial Development Contribution to Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
This study investigates the bank intermediation role (e.g., deposits, financing, and offices) contribution to enhancing Indonesian districts’ gross...
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PCA-ICA-LSTM: A Hybrid Deep Learning Model Based on Dimension Reduction Methods to Predict S&P 500 Index Price
In this paper, we propose a new hybrid model based on a deep learning network to predict the prices of financial assets. The study addresses two key...
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A state-level resource allocation model for emission reduction and efficiency improvement in thermal power plants
This paper develops a framework for centralized allocation of resources and production targets among firms that produce a bad output side-by-side...
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The Reduction of Public Debt, the Heart of a Monetary Reform
The only way to escape the current unhealthy situation in which risks and their remuneration are not balanced and in which the existence of zero or...
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The role of foreign aids and income inequality in poverty reduction: A sustainable development approach for Africa?
In the last decades, international interventions mostly through foreign aids have consistently been directed toward sustainable development...
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The Culture of Recycling, Re-use and Reduction: Eco-Activism and Entrepreneurship in Central Asia
While national governments are setting net-zero targets and drawing up strategies to reduce CO2 emissions and meet their Paris Agreement commitments,...
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Machine Learning in Financial Markets: Dimension Reduction and Support Vector Machine
The chapter focuses mainly on two aspects of machine learning. The first aspect is based on classification methods such as support vector machine...
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Localising decent work for poverty reduction in Africa: a case study of the decent work pilot project in Ghana
Since the adoption of Local Agenda 21, local governments have been enjoined to become active players in major development agendas, including the...
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Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Potentials in Europe by Sector: A Bootstrap-Based Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis
The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is the key action to limit global warming. An important source of greenhouse gas emissions and pollution is...
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Combined and distributional effects of EPL reduction and hiring incentives: an assessment using the Italian “Jobs Act”
After two decades of labour market reforms at the margin, the great recession created political scope to reduce the employment protection still...
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The Privilege of Working From Home at the Time of Social Distancing
Although the common perception is that the pandemic is ‘the great equaliser’, workers’ tasks, contractual framework and position in the internal...
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Minimum Wage Effects on Employment and Working Time of Chinese Workers
This chapter examines the impact of minimum wage policies on employment, income, and working time of Chinese workers. Using data from China Health...
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Conditional inference and bias reduction for partial effects estimation of fixed-effects logit models
We propose a multiple-step procedure to compute average partial effects (APEs) for fixed-effects static and dynamic logit models estimated by...