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Residential Segregation and Women's Labor Force Participation: The Case of Santiago de Chile (2023)
Journal Article
Garcia Dellacasa, M. (in press). Residential Segregation and Women's Labor Force Participation: The Case of Santiago de Chile. Feminist Economics, 29(2), 96-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2022.2157856

Women’s labor market participation in Chile ranks among the lowest in Latin America. In a country where over 90 percent of the population lives in segregated cities, where employment opportunities cluster in affluent neighborhoods, residential sortin... Read More about Residential Segregation and Women's Labor Force Participation: The Case of Santiago de Chile.

Does Air Pollution Influence Internal Migration? An Empirical Investigation on Italian Provinces (2021)
Journal Article
Germani, A. R., Scaramozzino, P., Castaldo, A., & Talamo, G. (in press). Does Air Pollution Influence Internal Migration? An Empirical Investigation on Italian Provinces. Environmental Science & Policy, 120(June), 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.02.005

This research analyzes the role that air pollution plays, controlling for other socio-economic factors, in the movement of the population among Italian provinces. In spite of the increased prominence of environmental degradation in the public policy... Read More about Does Air Pollution Influence Internal Migration? An Empirical Investigation on Italian Provinces.

Fiscal Effects of Migrants in Europe: A Quantile Regression Approach (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Joxhe, M., Scaramozzino, P., & Zanaj, S. Fiscal Effects of Migrants in Europe: A Quantile Regression Approach. Luxembourg

In this paper, we explore the fiscal impact of immigrants in Europe applying a quantile regression approach to data from the European Survey on Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for the period 2007-2015. Our estimations show that not only on average but al... Read More about Fiscal Effects of Migrants in Europe: A Quantile Regression Approach.

An Index-Based Assessment of Perceived Climate Risk and Vulnerability for the Urban Cluster in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China (2019)
Journal Article
Sun, L., Tian, Z., Zou, H., Shao, L., Sun, L., Dong, G., Fan, D., Huang, X., Frost, L., & Fox-James, L. (2019). An Index-Based Assessment of Perceived Climate Risk and Vulnerability for the Urban Cluster in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China. Sustainability, 11(7), https://doi.org/10.3390/su11072099

This paper proposes an index-based assessment tool to consolidate diverse opinions of various stakeholders on their assessments of sector-specific risks posed by climate change, and to aggregate these opinions into intuitive and comparable graphs. Th... Read More about An Index-Based Assessment of Perceived Climate Risk and Vulnerability for the Urban Cluster in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China.

Making information on CSR Scores Salient: A Randomised Field Experiment (2019)
Journal Article
Becchetti, L., Salustri, F., & Scaramozzino, P. (in press). Making information on CSR Scores Salient: A Randomised Field Experiment. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 81(6), 1193-1213. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12301

We locate a giant ‘school report-like’ scorecard poster with domain-specific social and environmental responsibility scores of the ten leading world food companies, measured by the Oxfam ‘Behind the Brands’ world campaign, at the entrance of selected... Read More about Making information on CSR Scores Salient: A Randomised Field Experiment.

Optimizing regional cropping systems with a dynamic adaptation strategy for water sustainable agriculture in the Hebei Plain (2019)
Journal Article
Zhong, H., Sun, L., Fischer, G., Tian, Z., & Liang, Z. (in press). Optimizing regional cropping systems with a dynamic adaptation strategy for water sustainable agriculture in the Hebei Plain. Agricultural Systems, 173, 94-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2019.02.005

Unsustainable overexploitation of groundwater for agricultural irrigation has led to rapid groundwater depletion and severe environmental damage in the semi-arid Hebei Plain of China. Field experiments have recommended annual winter fallowing (i.e.,... Read More about Optimizing regional cropping systems with a dynamic adaptation strategy for water sustainable agriculture in the Hebei Plain.

Explaining virtual water trade: A spatial-temporal analysis of the comparative advantage of land, labor and water in China (2019)
Journal Article
Zhao, D., Hubacek, K., Feng, K., Sun, L., & Liu, J. (2019). Explaining virtual water trade: A spatial-temporal analysis of the comparative advantage of land, labor and water in China. Water Research, 153, 304-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.01.025

The well-known “virtual water hypothesis” states that water-deficient regions/countries could alleviate water stress through importing water-intensive products from water-abundant regions/countries. Although observed trading patterns do often not sup... Read More about Explaining virtual water trade: A spatial-temporal analysis of the comparative advantage of land, labor and water in China.

Strengths and Weaknesses of African Trade Unions in the Neoliberal Period with a Sierra Leone Case Study' (2018)
Journal Article
McQuinn, M. (2018). Strengths and Weaknesses of African Trade Unions in the Neoliberal Period with a Sierra Leone Case Study'. Africana studia,

This article provides an overview of the weaknesses and strengths of trade unions in Africa, as neoliberal economic policies continue to spread across the continent. The Power Resources Approach is used as a conceptual framework. Five problems affec... Read More about Strengths and Weaknesses of African Trade Unions in the Neoliberal Period with a Sierra Leone Case Study'.

Rethinking labour market institutions in Indian industry: forms, functions and socio-historical contexts (2018)
Book Chapter
Miyamura, S. (2018). Rethinking labour market institutions in Indian industry: forms, functions and socio-historical contexts. In H. Peter (Ed.), An Endogenous Theory of Property Rights. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315112923

The emerging literature on institutional functionalism opens opportunities for historically and socially sensitive analysis of institutions, especially if it is complemented by a material understanding of institutions and their location within the wi... Read More about Rethinking labour market institutions in Indian industry: forms, functions and socio-historical contexts.

Why East Germany Did Not Become a New Mezzogiorno (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper
Boltho, A., Carlin, W., & Scaramozzino, P. Why East Germany Did Not Become a New Mezzogiorno. London

In an earlier paper (Journal of Comparative Economics, 1997) the authors argued, against the conventional wisdom of the time, that East Germany was unlikely to follow a development path similar to that of the Italian Mezzogiorno. This paper revisits... Read More about Why East Germany Did Not Become a New Mezzogiorno.

Moving beyond the paradox of macroeconomic stability in Uganda? (2015)
Journal Article
Van Waeyenberge, E., & Bargawi, H. (in press). Moving beyond the paradox of macroeconomic stability in Uganda?. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 33(1), 121-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2015.1021213

This article explores macroeconomic policies in Uganda in the wake of the global financial crisis and following the publication of the 2010 National Development Plan. Despite apparent changes in rhetoric regarding macroeconomic policies by the Uganda... Read More about Moving beyond the paradox of macroeconomic stability in Uganda?.