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Does official development assistance affect donor's export? : case of Korea

Noh, Bobae; Heshmati, Almas - 2017

This paper aims to estimate the impact of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Korea on its bilateral export to recipient countries. The empirical analysis is based on data from 1996 to 2014 with 121 recipient countries. Although the two models of determinants of ODA and...

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Low pay persistence in European countries

Clark, Kenneth; Kanellopoulos, Nikolaos C. - 2009

Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence...

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Mental health and working conditions in European countries

Cottini, Elena; Lucifora, Claudio - 2010

Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates...

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Tax and transfer policies and the female labor supply in the EU

Kalíšková, Klára - 2015

This study contributes to the female labor supply responsiveness literature by measuring the effect of tax-benefit policies on female labor supply based on a broad sample of 26 European countries in 2005-2010. The tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD is used to calculate a measure of work...

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Europe agreements and trade balance : evidence from four new EU members

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2011

This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...

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Employment dynamics of married women in Europe

Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor); … - 2005

We use eight waves from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to analyze the intertemporal labor supply behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom) using dynamic binary choice models with different initial...

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Determinants and dynamics of forced migration to Europe : evidence from a 3-D model of flows and stocks

Brück, Tilman; Dunker, Kai M.; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; … - 2018

Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull … significant economic variable. In addition, we demonstrate that it is episodes of escalating conflict, rather than accumulated … violence, that drives decisions to leave. Out-of-sample predictions indicate that if conflict in origin countries were to cease …

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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism

Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006

rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the … military conquests in Europe significantly reduced intra-European feuds. -- cooperation ; conflict ; religion ; institutions …

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An injury to one is an injury to all : terrorism's spillover effects on bilateral trade

Pham, Cong S.; Doucouliagos, Chris - 2017

In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring nations. Using a sample of more than 160 countries from 1976 to 2014, we report robust evidence that terrorist attacks in a nation's contiguous neighbors significantly reduce...

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Terrorism, political opinions, and election outcomes : evidence from Europe

Peri, Giovanni; Rees, Daniel I.; Smith, Brock - 2020

There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous studies in this literature have focused on a particular country or attack, limiting their generalizability. Ours is the first comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects...

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