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Exploring the Causality Links between Energy and Employment in African Countries
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Ben Youssef, Adel; M'henni, Hatem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using a bootstrap panel analysis that allows for cross-country dependence, without requiring the use of pre-tests for a unit root, we study the causality links between energy use and employment for a sample of 16 African countries over the 1991-2010 period (according to availability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795363
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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Ben Youssef, Adel; M'henni, Hatem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12 Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) over the period 1981 … interestingly, we show that real GDP exhibits a quadratic relationship with CO2 emissions for the region as a whole. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279316
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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734424
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National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking – one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884101
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Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences
Zimmermann, Christian; Gollin, Douglas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that malaria, a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes, causes over 300 million episodes of "acute illness" and more than one million deaths annually. Most of the deaths occur in poor countries of the tropics, and especially sub- Saharan Africa....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763773
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The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less-Educated Immigration into U.S. States
Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
differences in (short-term) GDP fluctuations between origin countries and U.S. states, and perhaps to (long-term) trend GDP … differences as well. More specifically, short-run GDP fluctuations pull less-educated male immigrants into certain U.S. states …, whereas GDP trends push less-educated male immigrants out of their countries of origin. Effects for less-educated women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279271
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Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan
Groh, Matthew; McKenzie, David; Shammout, Nour; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized … experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this phenomenon. The first experiment tests the role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959596
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Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats?
Andrews, Dan; Jencks, Christopher; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
top decile's income share is associated with a statistically significant 0.12 point rise in GDP growth during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506067
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The Dynamics of Food Deprivation and Overall Health: Evidence from the Canadian National Population Health Survey
Veall, Michael R.; McLeod, Logan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
The paper explores whether the responses to food deprivation questions on the longitudinal Canadian National Population Health Survey help explain the links between socio-economic status and health. Transitions in food deprivation status are correlated with changes in health status. While health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763632
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The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Jaeger, David A.; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper studies the dynamics of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since the outbreak of the Second (or "Al-Aqsa") Intifada in September 2000, during which more than 3,300 Palestinians and more than 1,000 Israelis have been killed. The conflict has followed an uneven pattern, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700876