267 research outputs found
The economic linkages of Covid-19 across sectors and regions in Europe
No full textThis paper builds a spatial model of trade with supply-chain links to examine the effect of economic links and anti-COVID policies on the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic during the first wave across NUTS2 regions of the European Union (EU) and the UK. We find that the effort to reduce infection rates was more successful in the UK than in the EU, and that the deaths due to the trade vector were 10% on average across Europe. Our results imply that without the policy response in Europe, the number of deaths during the first wave would have been about 4,520,000 higher in the EU and around 1,240,000 greater in the UK, with significant variations across regions. Oberbayern in Germany and South Yorkshire in the UK appear as the most effective in reducing the death burden of COVID-19 at different points during the first wave. Moreover, 42% and 37% of the total deaths in the UK and the EU, respectively, could have been prevented if the policy implemented in these two regions had prevailed throughout Europe.Fidel Pérez-Sebastián acknowledges financial support from ESRC-UKRI under grant ES/V015265/1 and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under grant PID2023-153032NB-I00, and Rafael Serrano-Quintero from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under grant PID2022-139468NB-I00
Proyecto arquitectónico presidencia auxiliar de comunidad y plaza de armas en la localidad de San Rafael Tenanyecac, municipio de Nativitas, Tlaxcala
No full text"Uno de los principales problemas que tiene la localidad de San Rafael Tenanyecac, municipio de Nativitas, Tlaxcala, es la falta de espacios de trabajo en el inmueble de la presidencia de comunidad, esto hace imposible realizar las actividades diarias del personal administrativo, por lo mismo tienen que acudir a otras formas de desempeño laboral en espacios inadecuados para ello. La presente investigación aborda la temática desde el punto de vista del municipio que guarda la administración municipal, igualmente como la condición actual de la plaza de armas en la localidad de San Rafael Tenanyecac, el cual cuenta con una presidencia auxiliar insuficiente de dos construcciones separadas, no es apto para poder dar un servicio de calidad a la sociedad, los espacios de trabajo están reducidos e impiden brindar una buena atención ciudadana por tal motivo se requieren trabajos de redistribución de oficinas con la finalidad de tener mejores condiciones laborales y contar con las áreas necesarias para los servicios requeridos a la demanda"
Proyecto arquitectónico presidencia auxiliar de comunidad y plaza de armas en la localidad de San Rafael Tenanyecac, municipio de Nativitas,Tlaxcala
No full text“Uno de los principales problemas que tiene la localidad de San Rafael Tenanyecac, municipio de Nativitas, Tlaxcala, es la falta de espacios de trabajo en el inmueble de la presidencia de comunidad, esto hace imposible realizar las actividades diarias del personal administrativo, por lo mismo tienen que acudir a otras formas dedesempeño laboral en espacios inadecuados para ello. La presente investigación aborda la temática desde el punto de vista del municipio que guarda la administración municipal, igualmente como la condición actual de la plaza de armas en la localidad de San Rafael Tenanyecac, el cual cuenta con una presidencia auxiliar insuficiente de dos construcciones separadas, no es apto para poder dar un servicio de calidad a la sociedad, los espacios de trabajo están reducidos e impiden brindar una buena atención ciudadana por tal motivo se requieren trabajos de redistribución de oficinas con la finalidad de tener mejores condiciones laborales y contar con las áreas necesarias para los servicios requeridos a la demanda. El segundo cuadro de necesidades que encontramos es la falta de una zona para realizar actividades culturales de la localidad”
Structural transformation in India: The Role of the Service Sector
No full textContrary to the experience of industrialized countries, productivity growth of Indian services has been consistently faster than manufacturing. In this paper, I document that (i) the fastest growing industries in services grow faster than in manufacturing; (ii) faster productivity growth in services than in manufacturing is not because of sluggish manufacturing productivity; (iii) the supply of skilled workers in India is skewed towards tertiary education and (iv) the service sector is the most skill intensive; (v) returns to schooling are larger for the high-productivity services. To quantify and rationalize these facts, I construct a multi-sector model of estructural change with high and low-skilled workers. The calibrated model suggests that the large supply of high-skill workers combined with higher skill intensity in the service sector seem to be behind the services take-off. The data imply that service sub-sectors are gross substitutes while manufacturing sub-sectors are gross complements. This will accelerate productivity growth in services and decelerate productivity growth in manufacturing
The aggregate productivity slowdown: A system approach
No full textI revisit the productivity slowdown debate by estimating the capital-labor elasticity and the bias of technical change for the U.S. economy under four different models of technical change. One with constant growth rates, one with a structural break in the constant growth rates, one in which growth is linear, and one with flexible time-varying growth rates. I find evidence in support of non-constant growth rates of factor-augmenting technical change. Labor-augmenting technical change growth rates are decelerating, while capital-augmenting technical change is non negligible but vanishes quickly
Defying Revolution in Venezuela: Biography as Utopic Discourse in Federico Vegas's <i>Falke</i>
No full textFor French philosopher Lois Marin, utopic discourse represents a supplementary alternative to the historical contradictions that produce a cultural artifact. Instead of creating a synthesis between two opposites, utopics offers the simulacrum of a solution made of personal narratives and exotic descriptions. This definition applies only partially to Falke (2004), the first novel of Federico Vegas, a popular author of historical fiction in Venezuela. Falke reconstructs the role of Rafael Vegas (1908–1973), a well-known educational reformer and philanthropist, in the 1929 Falke expedition. The novel narrates the tragedy of a failed military invasion and follows the journey of the protagonist through Los Llanos. It also intimates his personal transformation, suggesting that his ulterior consecration to teaching can be interpreted as utopia. However, the actual and unprecedented contributions of the main character to society are not included within the novel. As utopic discourse, Rafael Vegas's life is projected as a placeholder that the reader is called upon to fill in order to understand the utopian characteristics of the novel. At the same time, Falke—although anchored in Gomecismo—offers personal agency and autonomy as alternatives to the contradictions between Chavismo and the opposition in the years between 1999 and 2004.</jats:p
Privatization in the natural gas sector: a general equilibrium analysis
No full textA broad literature highlights efficiency gains due to cost reduction after privatizations in the energy sector. However, to the best of our knowledge, this literature does not develop general equilibrium models, which are fundamental to account for post-privatization gains from a regional perspective. This paper evaluates the increase in efficiency necessary to make the privatization of a natural gas local distribution company (LDC) worthwhile in a state-level fiscal sense. We propose a general equilibrium model representing a regional economy supplied by a monopolistic LDC, whose ownership is shared between the private sector and federal and state governments and calibrate it for 13 of the major Brazilian LDCs. We find that the necessary unit cost reduction varies substantially across LDCs and depends on the level of underpricing when the asset is sold. The necessary unitary cost reductions range from 1.6% to 64% when we consider the median level of underpricing found in the literature
The Economic Linkages of Covid-19 Across Sectors and Regions in the UK
No full textThis paper builds a spatial model of trade with supply-chain links to try to understand the effect of economic links and policies on the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic during the first wave across NUTS2 UK regions. We find that the fight to reduce infection rates was more successful in the UK than in the European Union. Our results imply that without the policy reaction in Europe, the number of deaths during the first wave of the pandemic would have been about 4,400,000 larger in the European Union and about 1,217,000 higher in the UK, and that these benefits vary greatly across UK regions. Comparing the effects of the policies implemented in the EU27 and in the UK, we estimate that, in the absence of European-Union’s anti-Covid-19 measures, the number of deaths in the UK would have been an 80% larger; and that UK antiCovid-19 measures saved 50,000 lives in the European Union and 1,200,000 lives in the UK
The Economic Linkages of Covid-19 Across Sectors and Regions in Europe
No full textThis paper builds a spatial model of trade with supply-chain links to examine the effect of economic links and anti-COVID policies on the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic during the first wave across NUTS2 regions of the European Union (EU) and the UK. We find that the effort to reduce infection rates was more successful in the UK than in the EU, and that the deaths due to the trade vector were 10% on average across Europe. Our results imply that without the policy response in Europe, the number of deaths during the first wave would have been about 4,520,000 higher in the EU and around 1,240,000 greater in the UK, with significant variations across regions. Oberbayern in Germany and South Yorkshire in the UK appear as the most effective in reducing the death burden of COVID-19 at different points during the first wave. Moreover, 42% and 37% of the total deaths in the UK and the EU, respectively, could have been prevented if the policy implemented in these two regions had prevailed throughout Europe
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