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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
The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an extensive overview of existing practices and datasets used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694989
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The Influence of Conflict on the Demand for Education in the Basque Region
Groot, Olaf J. de; Göksel, Idil - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
It has previously been shown that civil conflict influences many economic factors, including education, which play an important role in development and economic growth. Previous authors working on the influence of conflict on education have, however, always focused strongly on the supply-side...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461824
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WATER-Model: An Optimal Allocation of Water Resources in Turkey, Syria and Iraq
Oei, Pao-Yu; Siehlow, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
Political instability of several countries in the Middle East is overshadowing one of the biggest challenges of the upcoming century: Water - a natural resource that is easily taken for granted, but whose scarcity might lead to serious conflicts. This paper investigates an optimal Water...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783992
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An Economic Analysis of Security Policies
Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This paper analyses public policy choices in the security economy from an economic perspective. It discusses the role of public goods for national and global security and identifies the importance of the first- and second-order indirect effects of insecurity on economic activity, which include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963827
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519450
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More Security Issues are Needed on the European Union Agenda: Beyond an Academic Concept of In/Security in the Era of Global Terrorism
Krulík, Oldrich; Pernica, Buhoslav; Stejskal, Libor; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
Security as an objectively existing quality which can be discussed in innumerable ways, but it may hardly be ignored and its significance (let alone its existence) may hardly be doubted. Security is a fundamental human need which is a subject of our efforts for its satisfaction and its chronic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071053
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Threat Perceptions in Europe: Domestic Terrorism and International Crime
Murshed, Syed Mansoob - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper focuses on two areas of security concern for the European Union: terrorism and international crime. I present a model of game-theoretic interaction between a European state and a domestic dissident group, who, on occasion, may resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071055
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Are Uzbeks Better off than Kyrgyz?: Measuring and Decomposing Horizontal Inequality
Esenaliev, Damir; Steiner, Susan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
We investigate horizontal inequality between two conflictive ethnic groups, the Kyrgyz and the Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan, by employing the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. This technique has a long tradition in labour economics but has not been used in the literature that links ethnic inequality and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592498
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The Effects of Labor Supply Shocks on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Mansour, Hani - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Since September 2000, as a result of mobility restrictions, the supply of Palestinian workers competing for local jobs in the West Bank has increased by about fifty percent. This paper takes advantage of this unique natural experiment to study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568244
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Determinants of Protests: Longitudinal Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution
Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
two different -and equally interesting- features of the revolution: the determinants of participation (both in the … participation). We consider different drivers of participation, from traditional proxies for opportunities and grievances, but we … connectivity. What emerges from this study is a more nuanced pattern of participation that does not link uniquely to a single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873441