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Climate Change and Occupational Health

Are There Limits to Our Ability to Adapt?

Marcus Dillender
Journal of Human Resources, January 2021, 56 (1) 184-224; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.56.1.0718-9594R3

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