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Start-up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....

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Getting back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-up Subsidies for Unemployed Females

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Beside activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the re-integration of unemployed women. Due to female-specific labor market constraints (preferences for...

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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda

Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of the survivors in multiple ways. The analysis finds a robust effect of …

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Linguistic Polarization and Conflict in the Basque Country

Gardeazabal, Javier - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic polarization and conflict in the Basque Country. During the … roots underlying the conflict in the Basque Country. We show that at the municipality level, linguistic polarization reduces … the level of conflict. This finding is robust to various ways of measuring linguistic and ideological polarization and the …

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Who Does What in a Household after Genocide?: Evidence from Rwanda

Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of casualties were adult males. The paper explores two...

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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …

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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub- Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping...

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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...

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Terrorism and Trade

Nitsch, Volker; Schumacher, Dieter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

bilateral trade flows between more than 200 countries over the period from 1960 to 1993. Applying an augmented gravity model that includes several measures of terrorism and largescale violence, we find compelling evidence that terrorist actions reduce the volume of trade; a doubling in the number...

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On the Interaction between Fear and Hatred

Murshed, Syed Mansoob - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper models conflictual interaction between a European state and a domestic dissident immigrant minority group, Muslims say, some of whom may resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial and provides the micro-foundations of dissident behaviour by solving the collective action...

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