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International crises, national scale, and economic resilience in the 21st century 21世纪的国际危机、国家规模和经济弹性

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Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.09.007

Yao Ouyang , Min Lu , Zisheng Ouyang

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Optimizing carbon responsibility allocation in the steel supply chain: A cradle-to-cradle life cycle assessment approach 优化钢铁供应链中的碳责任分配：一个从摇篮到摇篮的生命周期评估方法

IF 5.5 2区经济学

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.09.006

Shufen Dai , Chen Wang , Fei Meng , Wei Gu , Jian Tian

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Natural resource curse: Mediating effects of fiscal policy 自然资源诅咒：财政政策的中介效应

IF 5.5 2区经济学

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.08.012

Linus Nyiwul , Zhining Hu , Niraj P. Koirala

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Robots and wages: A meta-analysis 机器人与工资：一项元分析

IF 5.5 2区经济学

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.09.003

Anne Jurkat , Rainer Klump , Florian Schneider

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Do the economic policies of Japan’s “New form of capitalism” create a virtuous cycle of growth and distribution? 日本“新型资本主义”的经济政策是否创造了增长和分配的良性循环？

IF 5.5 2区经济学

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.08.018

Hiroaki Sasaki, Aya Mizutani

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Spillover effects of enterprise digital transformation on supply chain carbon emissions: Evidence from China 企业数字化转型对供应链碳排放的溢出效应：来自中国的证据

IF 5.5 2区经济学

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.09.005

Haotian Luo , Jinlei Yu , Tong Mu , Peng Zhou

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Heterogeneous effects of frontier technology adoption on economic growth in Africa 前沿技术采用对非洲经济增长的异质效应

IF 5.5 2区经济学

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.09.004

Isaac K. Ofori , Emmanuel Y. Gbolonyo , Andrea Vezzulli

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The rise of the middle class and the pattern of consumption imports in Latin America 拉丁美洲中产阶级的崛起与消费进口模式

IF 5.5 2区经济学

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-09-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.08.016

Laura Heras-Recuero

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Digitalisation, e-Governance and the informal sector 数字化、电子政务和非正规部门

IF 5.5 2区经济学

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.08.007

Dibyendu Maiti, Bhavna Khari

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Appetite for Destruction. A firm-level portrait of automation in Poland 毁灭的欲望。波兰企业层面的自动化图景

IF 5.5 2区经济学

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2025.08.001

Julia Jabłońska , Jakub Mućk

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