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When Disaster Strikes: How Climate Events Influence Employment Preferences 
As extreme climate events, including wildfires, heatwaves, floods, and hurricanes, become more frequent and severe, their economic impact is often quantified through the lens of physical destruction. Table 1 summarizes the total amount of damage and frequency of 13 types of climate disasters in the U.S. between July ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/thought-leadership-briefs/when-disaster-strikes-how-climate-events-influence-employment-preferences
When Disaster Strikes: How Climate Events Influence Employment Preferences
Abstract This paper examines how experiences with climate disasters shape workers’ employment preferences. We find that, in disaster-affected areas, firms with worse environmental performance fill vacancies more slowly and hire lower quality employees than better environmentally performing firms, compared to ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/when-disaster-strikes
Benefiting from Disaster?: Public and Private Responses to the Wenchuan Earthquake
We provide the first household survey-based evidence on the impact of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake on the welfare of rural households. Asset and income losses were substantial, especially in seriously affected areas. Our main finding is that there was an overwhelming government response to the disaster. Subsidies ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/park-responses-wenchuan-earthquake
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