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Getting Back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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

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Rural Households in a Changing Climate

Baez, Javier E.; Kronick, Dorothy; Mason, Andrew D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...

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

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Election Fraud and Post-Election Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines

Crost, Benjamin; Felter, Joseph; Mansour, Hani; Rees, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Previous studies have documented a positive association between election fraud and the intensity of civil conflict. It …-election casualties, which is consistent with the hypothesis that election fraud causes conflict. We conduct several robustness tests and …

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On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict

Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; Reuben, Ernesto; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …

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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War)

Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and war. Based on one theory, the Ottoman conquests were driven by the …

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Ottoman Conquests and European Ecclesiastical Pluralism

Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …

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Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-Evidence from Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Despite a significant expansion of the literature on conflicts and fragility of states, only a few systematic attempts have been made to link the theoretical literature on social conflicts to the available micro-level information about the people who are involved in these conflicts. We address...

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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings …. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of … Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Palestinian employment rates in Israel and mean monthly earnings, regardless of work location …

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Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation

Robst, John; Polachek, Solomon; Chang, Yuan-Ching - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect … conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically close, but has a greater effect on cooperation when countries are … more distant. Geographic proximity increases conflict and cooperation more among non-trading dyads. …

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