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Damned by dams? : infrastructure and conflict
Eberle, Ulrich J. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486458
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Ethnic distribution, effective power and conflict
Kovacic, Matija; Zoli, Claudio - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957381
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Does ethnic diversity in schools affect occupational choices?
Pregaldini, Damiano; Balestra, Simone; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022
We study how two distinct dimensions of peer ethnic diversity (ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization) affect … schools, we find evidence for two opposing effects. Ethnic fractionalization increases the likelihood of students sorting into … people-oriented occupations while ethnic polarization reduces this likelihood. Using data on social and cognitive skills, we …
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Impact of ethnic civil conflict on migration of skilled labor
Christensen, Julie; Onul, Darius; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
We reevaluate the hypothesis and empirical result that ethnic civil wars lead to higher skilled emigration (Bang and Mitra, 2013). We develop a simple conceptual framework that predicts contrasting results depending upon if the economy is assumed to be agglomerating in skilled labor or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517907
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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development
Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017
We study whether the spatial distribution of natural resources across different ethnic groups within countries impede spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588047
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Civil and Ethnic Conflict in Historical Political Economy
Jha, Saumitra - 2022
-linguistic fractionalization and polarization. I highlight two aspects which I believe are crucial for understanding these impacts but remain … the patterns of persistence and change in conflict around the world through the lens of historical political economy. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080519
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The dynamics of horizontal economic inequality in countries affected by ethnic conflict
Ndayikeza, Michel Armel - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012618717
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Ethnic Divisions and the Onset of Civil Wars in Syria
abosedra, salah; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir - 2021
While most civil wars seem to have an economic basis, they are generally pushed by political, ethnic, and religious differences. This paper attempts to identify the drivers of the Syrian civil war of 2011 by investigating the role of ethnic divisions in starting a conflict. We integrate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251534
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Economic Shocks, Civil War and Ethnicity
Janus, Thorsten - 2015
Using a novel cross-country panel dataset, we show that commodity terms of trade declines cause civil war in countries with intermediate ethnic diversity. The civil war effects for highly diverse or homogenous societies are negative and insignificant. Since the size of the largest ethnic group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034978
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Ethnic divisions and the onset of civil wars in Syria
Abosedra, Salah S.; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir - 2021
While most civil wars seem to have an economic basis, they are generally pushed by political, ethnic, and religious differences. This paper attempts to identify the drivers of the Syrian civil war of 2011 by investigating the role of ethnic divisions in starting a conflict. We integrate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012406061