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Big data and inter-firm wage disparities: theory and evidence from China
While Big Data is driving high-quality firm development, it will also have a new impact on wage differences among firms, which is a less discussed...
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Application of Low-Cost IoT Sensors for Smart Public Transportation
Smart public transportation is one of the main components of a smart city. The current work develops a low-cost Internet of Things (IoT) solution to...
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An Analysis of Mode Choice Decisions for Long-Distance Recreational Travel in India
Analysis of long-distance travel behaviour is important for the planning and operation of inter-state, inter-city, and urban–rural transportation...
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Training Returns Among Informal Workers: Evidence from Urban Sites in Kenya and Tanzania
Training contributes to economic growth through raising productivity, enabling the use of new technologies and allowing workers to raise earnings...
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Evidence on price stickiness in Japan
Using microdata from the Retail Price Survey (the basic statistics for the Consumer Price Index), we document facts regarding price stickiness in...
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COVID-19 Led Return to Kerala: A Comparative Analysis of Return Emigrants
This article concerns emigrants who returned to Kerala between May and December 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study and document the...
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Internet use and frailty in middle-aged and older adults: findings from developed and develo** countries
BackgroundWith increasing trend of internet use in all age groups, whether internet use can prevent frailty in middle-aged and older adults remains...
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The impact of artificial intelligence on green transformation of manufacturing enterprises: evidence from China
Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a new driving force for green transformation of manufacturing enterprises. Drawing from panel data of...
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Improving Women’s Position in the Household: Evidence from a Maternity Cash Transfer Programme in India
The impacts of cash transfers on women empowerment vary significantly with transfer context and design, including beneficiary targeting, transfer...
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The impact of the Bank of Japan’s exchange traded fund and corporate bond purchases on firms’ capital structure
This study examines how the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ’s) exchange-traded fund (ETF) and corporate bond (CB) purchases affect the capital structure of...
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Inequality ranking of ordered categorical distributions: A status-based approach
One of the basic questions that arise in measuring inequality in the distribution of a variable is how to define the inequality dominance relation ...
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Multidimensional Assessment of the Labour Market in the Regions of the Russian Federation
Although labour markets show resilience, they still experience a decrease in labour productivity and, consequently, the level of socioeconomic...
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The Failing Aid Complex in Uganda’s Northeast
Every year about thirty billion dollars are spent on aid across Africa, yet recurrent crises followed by a blame game amongst different actors, and a...
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Intellectual property licensing of therapeutics during the COVID-19 crisis: lessons learnt for pandemic preparedness and response
During the COVID-19 pandemic, intellectual property licensing through bilateral agreements and the Medicines Patent Pool were used to facilitate...
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COVID-19 and Wages and Salaries Dynamics in Malaysia: A Blessing in Disguise?
Predictors of wages and salaries (earnings) are investigated to track the impact of COVID-19 on wages and salaries dynamics in Malaysia for 2019 and...
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The shape of the wealth distribution and differences in wealth inequality across Euro area countries
Based on data from the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), we revisit the question of how differences in household...
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Market Distortions and Welfare in Develo** Countries: A Search for Critical Levels of Reforms
This work theoretically finds out the welfare implications of different reformatory policies in a small open develo** economy using a 2 × 2...
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Targeted Poverty Alleviation for the Livelihood Improvement of Poverty-Stricken Households: A Case Study of Wuxi County, China
This paper explores the effects of different types of policy measures on poverty-stricken households’ (PSHs’) livelihood strategy transitions in...
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The Ethical and Privacy Implications of Datafication and Digitalization in Develo** Country Contexts
The chapter investigates ethical and privacy concerns resulting from digitalization and datafication in the Global South, drawing from a systematic...
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Predicting the fate of BTEX pollution and evaluating the remediation efficiency in an industrial site
This study focused on estimating the aquifer hydraulic parameters of Bandar Abbas Refinery in Iran through a pum** test and investigating the fate...
