Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s12076-023-00326-y
Chiara F Del Bo
Vaccination campaigns are one of the factors that can help mitigate the adverse effects of viral pandemics. The aim of this paper is to understand the institutional factors that are associated with a higher success rate, measured by the percentage of vaccinated population against COVID-19 across countries. Along with supply side determinants, institutional factors, related, at the national level, to the organization of the healthcare sector, governance and organization of the State and social capital, and, at the subnational level related to the authority and autonomy of lower tiers of government, are important correlates of successful vaccination campaigns, suggesting potential areas of public policy interventions.
{"title":"Institutional quality and COVID-19 vaccination: does decentralization matter?","authors":"Chiara F Del Bo","doi":"10.1007/s12076-023-00326-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12076-023-00326-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vaccination campaigns are one of the factors that can help mitigate the adverse effects of viral pandemics. The aim of this paper is to understand the institutional factors that are associated with a higher success rate, measured by the percentage of vaccinated population against COVID-19 across countries. Along with supply side determinants, institutional factors, related, at the national level, to the organization of the healthcare sector, governance and organization of the State and social capital, and, at the subnational level related to the authority and autonomy of lower tiers of government, are important correlates of successful vaccination campaigns, suggesting potential areas of public policy interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":44710,"journal":{"name":"Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9965896/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9101270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s12076-023-00335-x
Enrico Berbenni, Stefano Colombo
In this paper, we discuss the classical modelling approach of pandemics as a negative labour shock. We perform an archival analysis of one of the largest Italian banks (Credito Italiano) during the First World War - Spanish Flu period (1914-1920). In particular, we scrutinise the circulars that the central management of the bank sent out to the local branches, with the aim to assess whether the Spanish Flu has been perceived by contemporaries as an event seriously affecting personnel management. Though restricted to a single case-study, archival evidence does not support the existence of a remarkable negative labour supply shock affecting personnel management because of the Spanish Flu pandemic. Other war-related events probably increased the system's resilience.
{"title":"The impact of pandemics on labour organization: insights from an Italian company archive during the Spanish Flu.","authors":"Enrico Berbenni, Stefano Colombo","doi":"10.1007/s12076-023-00335-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12076-023-00335-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, we discuss the classical modelling approach of pandemics as a negative labour shock. We perform an archival analysis of one of the largest Italian banks (Credito Italiano) during the First World War - Spanish Flu period (1914-1920). In particular, we scrutinise the circulars that the central management of the bank sent out to the local branches, with the aim to assess whether the Spanish Flu has been perceived by contemporaries as an event seriously affecting personnel management. Though restricted to a single case-study, archival evidence does not support the existence of a remarkable negative labour supply shock affecting personnel management because of the Spanish Flu pandemic. Other war-related events probably increased the system's resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":44710,"journal":{"name":"Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10020760/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9215084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1007/s12076-023-00347-7
Usep Nugraha, Budy P Resosudarmo, Rus'an Nasrudin
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit urban areas particularly hard, yet there is a lack of research on the hypothesis that living in more compact cities can provide better support for work and social conditions during the pandemic. This study addresses this gap by examining whether city compactness can mitigate the negative impact of the pandemic on the work and social life of urban residents in Jakarta, Indonesia. The study uses a household phone survey combined with publicly available urban form data. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression, supplemented with a matching technique to address potential selection bias, is employed. The results suggest that living in more compact locations can reduce the disruption to work and social life associated with COVID-19 in urban communities. This positive effect is particularly experienced by males, non-migrants, and individuals from wealthy families.
{"title":"Examining the impact of urban compactness on work and social life disruption during COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia.","authors":"Usep Nugraha, Budy P Resosudarmo, Rus'an Nasrudin","doi":"10.1007/s12076-023-00347-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12076-023-00347-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic has hit urban areas particularly hard, yet there is a lack of research on the hypothesis that living in more compact cities can provide better support for work and social conditions during the pandemic. This study addresses this gap by examining whether city compactness can mitigate the negative impact of the pandemic on the work and social life of urban residents in Jakarta, Indonesia. The study uses a household phone survey combined with publicly available urban form data. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression, supplemented with a matching technique to address potential selection bias, is employed. The results suggest that living in more compact locations can reduce the disruption to work and social life associated with COVID-19 in urban communities. This positive effect is particularly experienced by males, non-migrants, and individuals from wealthy families.</p>","PeriodicalId":44710,"journal":{"name":"Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10227402/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9575851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s12076-023-00325-z
Rasheed O Alao, Abdulkareem Alhassan, Saheed Alao, Ifedolapo O Olanipekun, Godwin O Olasehinde-Williams, Ojonugwa Usman
Crude oil is an essential source of energy. Without access to energy, output growth is impossible. As a result of this link, volatility in oil prices has the ability to induce fluctuations in the output of both developed and developing economies. Moreover, factors such as business cycles and policy changes often introduce nonlinearity into the transmission mechanism of oil price shocks. This study therefore examines not only the interconnectedness of oil price volatility and output growth, but also the nonlinear, asymmetric impact of oil price volatility on output growth in the countries making up the Group of Seven. To this end, monthly data on West Texas Intermediate oil price and industrial production indices of the Group of Seven countries over the period 1990:01 to 2019:08 is used for empirical analysis. The study employs the DCC and cDCC-GARCH techniques for symmetric empirical analysis. The asymmetric empirical analysis is also conducted via GJR-GARCH, FIEGARCH, HYGARCH and cDCC-GARCH techniques. The findings reveal disparities in the magnitudes of the positive and negative (asymmetric) effects of oil price shocks on output growth. The results also reveal that past news and lagged volatility have a significant impact on the current conditional volatility of the output growth of the Group of Seven countries. The study concludes that the impact of oil price volatility on output growth in the selected economies is asymmetric, the volatility is highly persistent and clustered, and the asymmetric GARCH models outperform the symmetric GARCH models.
{"title":"Symmetric and asymmetric GARCH estimations of the impact of oil price uncertainty on output growth: evidence from the G7.","authors":"Rasheed O Alao, Abdulkareem Alhassan, Saheed Alao, Ifedolapo O Olanipekun, Godwin O Olasehinde-Williams, Ojonugwa Usman","doi":"10.1007/s12076-023-00325-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12076-023-00325-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Crude oil is an essential source of energy. Without access to energy, output growth is impossible. As a result of this link, volatility in oil prices has the ability to induce fluctuations in the output of both developed and developing economies. Moreover, factors such as business cycles and policy changes often introduce nonlinearity into the transmission mechanism of oil price shocks. This study therefore examines not only the interconnectedness of oil price volatility and output growth, but also the nonlinear, asymmetric impact of oil price volatility on output growth in the countries making up the Group of Seven. To this end, monthly data on West Texas Intermediate oil price and industrial production indices of the Group of Seven countries over the period 1990:01 to 2019:08 is used for empirical analysis. The study employs the DCC and cDCC-GARCH techniques for symmetric empirical analysis. The asymmetric empirical analysis is also conducted via GJR-GARCH, FIEGARCH, HYGARCH and cDCC-GARCH techniques. The findings reveal disparities in the magnitudes of the positive and negative (asymmetric) effects of oil price shocks on output growth. The results also reveal that past news and lagged volatility have a significant impact on the current conditional volatility of the output growth of the Group of Seven countries. The study concludes that the impact of oil price volatility on output growth in the selected economies is asymmetric, the volatility is highly persistent and clustered, and the asymmetric GARCH models outperform the symmetric GARCH models.</p>","PeriodicalId":44710,"journal":{"name":"Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9965897/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9101273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1007/s12076-022-00321-9
Chhanda Ruj, A. Majumdar, S. Ghosal
{"title":"Political ecology and hydrosocial relation: a study on drought and associated migration in a semi-arid district of West Bengal, India","authors":"Chhanda Ruj, A. Majumdar, S. Ghosal","doi":"10.1007/s12076-022-00321-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12076-022-00321-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44710,"journal":{"name":"Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49633943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1007/s12076-022-00320-w
M. Polemis, Panagiotis N. Fotis, Panayiotis G. Tzeremes, Nickolaos G. Tzeremes
{"title":"On the examination of the decoupling effect of air pollutants from economic growth: a convergence analysis for the US","authors":"M. Polemis, Panagiotis N. Fotis, Panayiotis G. Tzeremes, Nickolaos G. Tzeremes","doi":"10.1007/s12076-022-00320-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12076-022-00320-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44710,"journal":{"name":"Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46333061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-14DOI: 10.1007/s12076-022-00317-5
Kemal Eyyüboğlu, Saffet Akdağ, H. Yıldırım, A. Alola
{"title":"The causal trend of energy intensity and urbanization in emerging countries","authors":"Kemal Eyyüboğlu, Saffet Akdağ, H. Yıldırım, A. Alola","doi":"10.1007/s12076-022-00317-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12076-022-00317-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44710,"journal":{"name":"Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47342083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-16DOI: 10.1007/s12076-022-00315-7
L. Serra, Claudio Detotto, M. Vannini
{"title":"Public lands as a mitigator of wildfire burned area using a spatio-temporal model applied in Sardinia","authors":"L. Serra, Claudio Detotto, M. Vannini","doi":"10.1007/s12076-022-00315-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12076-022-00315-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44710,"journal":{"name":"Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47610145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1007/s12076-022-00313-9
Yikuan Chen, B. Brorsen, J. Biermacher, Mykel Taylor
{"title":"Spatially varying wheat protein premiums","authors":"Yikuan Chen, B. Brorsen, J. Biermacher, Mykel Taylor","doi":"10.1007/s12076-022-00313-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12076-022-00313-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44710,"journal":{"name":"Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48670939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-22DOI: 10.1007/s12076-022-00312-w
J. Satapathy, N. Nayak, Jitendra Mahakud
{"title":"Do various dimensions of food security affect household welfare differently? An empirical investigation of India's national food security act","authors":"J. Satapathy, N. Nayak, Jitendra Mahakud","doi":"10.1007/s12076-022-00312-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12076-022-00312-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44710,"journal":{"name":"Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41668616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}