This doctoral thesis consists of three empirical essays that have in common the use of robust research designs to test the hypothesis set out in each chapter. The first chapter uses a randomized controlled trial in a ...

This article aims to study the effects of the recent Haitian immigration to Brazil on labor market outcomes of natives such as mean wage and net formal admissions, where the municipalities are the units of analysis. Due ...

Economic inequality is one of the main issues of modern societies, and one of the ways to reduce it is through decreasing inequality tolerance and increasing support for economic redistribution. However, there are no ...

The article reviews the use of economics, psychology and business administration science laboratory experiments in the study of decision making in complex and dynamic environments. Such environments have not been sufficiently ...

The present work analyzes the potential of technological and economically feasible interventions performed to decrease the energy consumption in the building sector of the city of Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina (latitude ...

La relación entre desigualdad y presión ambiental ha sido abordada desde dos mecanismos: consumo de los hogares y elección de políticas ambientales. La presente tesis se propone contribuir a la literatura abordando el ...

Objectives: The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the costeffectiveness of occupational safety and health interventions from the employer perspective. Methods: A comprehensive literature search (2005 to 2016) ...