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Environmental Sciences
Noam Levin
Summary: The earthquakes that occurred in south-eastern Turkey on 6 February 2023 were one of the deadliest in the past century. This study demonstrates the ability to map and quantify the areas affected by these earthquakes using changes in nighttime lights observed by NASA's VIIRS/DNB sensor. The darkening of nighttime lights corresponds to the impacted areas located mostly in cities and towns along the fault line, with macroseismic intensity values higher than 7. Rapid mapping of impacted areas from space using nighttime lights is crucial for global emergency and rescue services.
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Economics
Stijn Baert
Summary: The metaphor of the iceberg is used to illustrate the issue of inactive population in the labor market, which is much larger than the unemployment population. The limitations of using unemployment rate as the sole indicator of labor market health are highlighted, and a dashboard approach using unemployment-to-population ratio and inactivity-to-population ratio is advocated as more comprehensive measures. The variation in these ratios between countries suggests the need for tailored policies based on specific country conditions.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY
(2021)
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Business
Sarah Meier, Robert J. R. Elliott, Eric Strobl
Summary: We estimated the impact of wildfires on GDP growth rate and employment in Southern Europe from 2011 to 2018. By matching economic data with burned area perimeters, we found that experiencing at least one wildfire led to a decrease in annual GDP growth rate and a significant production loss for Southern Europe. Furthermore, the impact on employment growth rate varied across economic activity types.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Business
Joshua Graff Zivin, Yanjun Liao, Yann Panassie
Summary: This paper examines the effects of hurricanes on housing markets and population turnover in Florida during 2000-2016. The authors find that hurricanes lead to a temporary increase in home prices and a concurrent decrease in transactions, indicating a negative transitory shock to housing supply. By analyzing mortgage application data, they also find that incoming homeowners during this period have higher incomes, resulting in an overall shift towards wealthier groups. These findings suggest that market responses to natural disasters can result in uneven and lasting demographic changes in affected communities, even after a full recovery in physical capital.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Economics
Maqsood Aslam, Laurent Weill, Hira Iqbal
Summary: This study examines the link between exposure to the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan and religiosity. The findings show a positive correlation between earthquake exposure and religiosity, supporting the religious coping hypothesis. The study also reveals that the strength of religious coping varies with education and age, and there are gender differences in the relationship between earthquake exposure and religiosity.
ECONOMIC MODELLING
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Meng Zhang, Barnabas C. Seyler, Baofeng Di, Yuan Wang, Ya Tang
Summary: Tourism in Sichuan's Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture was heavily impacted by the 2017 Jiuzhaigou Earthquake, with Jiuzhaigou experiencing a significant reduction in tourist volumes in the years following the earthquake. Despite the local devastation, Sichuan's broader tourism industry was relatively unaffected, highlighting the need for domestic tourism and economic diversity in building resilience following natural disasters.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2021)
Review
Environmental Studies
Saad Mazhar Khan, Imran Shafi, Wasi Haider Butt, Isabel de la Torre Diez, Miguel Angel Lopez Flores, Juan Castanedo Galan, Imran Ashraf
Summary: This comprehensive assessment focuses on flood control, exploring different types of natural disasters, utilizing advanced technologies such as big data analysis and cloud computing, collecting real-time data through sensor networks, modeling flood scenarios through model-driven engineering, visualizing and analyzing spatial data through Geographic Information System (GIS), and applying machine learning and data analytics for predictive modeling and risk assessment in flood management.
Review
Economics
Shaul Hartal, Karima Kourtit, Gabriela Carmen Pascariu
Summary: This study provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the major scientific literature on labour market developments and resilience in a spatial context. It examines the effects of sudden shocks on the labour market's resilience capacity and generates a typology of shocks at different geographical scales. The paper concludes with a strategic analysis of resilience policies and policy lessons on regional labour markets, positioning the scope and innovations in this special issue in a broader employment resilience context.
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Economics
Tial Len Par, Gi Khan Ten, Ju-Ho Lee
Summary: This paper investigates the long-term effects of early-life exposure to natural disasters on health and educational outcomes, finding that individuals exposed to earthquakes are more likely to have difficulties in various activities and experience lower educational attainment. The study highlights the importance of timely disaster management in addressing early-life roots of unequal opportunities.
JOURNAL OF ASIAN ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Economics
Min Gong, Wei He, Nan Zhang
Summary: This study finds that local officials' promotion incentives have a positive impact on the employment rate, especially by improving the employment ratio of the secondary industry during political promotion periods. The study also shows that the level of local marketization and city size significantly moderate this impact.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Hamid Noghanibehambari
Summary: A growing body of research has explored the effects of prenatal insults caused by natural disasters on life-cycle outcomes. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the long-term effects of prenatal exposure to earthquakes on adult and old-age mortality. The results suggest that exposure during the first trimester is associated with a decrease in longevity, equivalent to 22 percent of the white-nonwhite gap in mortality rates. These findings highlight the importance of the in-utero period, especially the onset of pregnancy, for later-life health outcomes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
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Development Studies
Shishir Shakya, Subuna Basnet, Jayash Paudel
Summary: The 2015 earthquake in Nepal had a significant negative impact on international labor migration, particularly in severely affected districts, where the number of work permits issued to Nepalese individuals for international migration decreased significantly. This effect was statistically significant and only observed among males.
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Economics
Roberto Basile, Luisa Giallonardo, Pasquale Lelio Iapadre, Maria Gabriela Ladu, Riccardo Persio
Summary: This paper uses a balanced panel data and a new difference-in-differences approach to assess the causal effects of the earthquakes in Italy in 2009, 2012, and 2016 on local labor market outcomes. The results show that the 2009 earthquake had significant and persistent negative impacts on employment rate, while the earthquakes in 2012 and 2016 did not have adverse effects. The analysis is extended to the industry level to highlight sectoral shifts following these natural disasters.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yashobanta Parida, Joyita Roy Chowdhury, Swati Saini, Devi Prasad Dash
Summary: Floods are a common and devastating natural disaster in India, and previous research suggests that higher income is associated with lower flood damages. However, our study challenges this view and finds an inverted U-shaped relationship between per capita income and flood impact. We also highlight the importance of government responsiveness in mitigating flood risk.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Jan-Luca Hennig
Summary: This paper investigates how labour market regulations alter the adverse impact of rising import competition from China in European local labour markets between 1997 and 2006. The paper finds that regions more exposed to the rise of China have suffered from a reduction in manufacturing employment shares. This shock grows larger with regional labour market frictions; hence, it exacerbates the impact of trade shock on employment. Moreover, the paper finds that employment in public services, and not in construction or private services sector, absorbed the negative shock to the manufacturing sector.
Article
Industrial Relations & Labor
Monica Jimenez Martinez, Maribel Jimenez Martinez
Summary: This study conducts a meta-analysis to understand the real effect of the minimum wage on the two components of employment: hirings and separations. The findings suggest that although minimum wage reduces hirings, it also reduces separations, offsetting the negative effect on employment. The results emphasize the importance of looking beyond employment rates and provide insights for labor policy-making.
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
(2023)
Article
Economics
Monica Jimenez Martinez, Maribel Jimenez Martinez
Summary: The impact of the minimum wage on employment varies between different countries, with a negative bias found in developed countries and no bias in developing countries. Despite the negative effect on employment, the impact of the minimum wage is small yet robust.
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Economics
Maribel Jimenez, Monica Jimenez
CUADERNOS DE ECONOMIA
(2019)
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Economics
Maribel Jimenez
CUADERNOS DE ECONOMIA-SPAIN
(2018)
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Economics
Maribel Jimenez, Monica Jimenez
CUADERNOS DE ECONOMIA
(2016)
