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Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate poverty at a global level. When a given host country allows more immigrants in, this creates costs and benefits for that particular country as well as a positive externality for all those (individuals and governments)...

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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We show that the proposed system can go a long way towards...

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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies: Evidence from a New Index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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A Discrete Choice Approach to Estimating Armed Conflicts' Casualties: Revisiting the Numbers of a 'Truth Commission'

Rendon, Silvio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

I discuss the application of capture-recapture methods to estimating the total number of deaths in armed conflicts, and propose an alternative method based on a trivariate discrete choice model. Data come from the 'Truth and Reconciliation Commission' (TRC) of Peru, around 25000 deaths,...

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Fertility in Sub-Saharan African Countries with Consideration to Health and Poverty

Jeon, Yongil; Rhyu, Sang-Young; Shields, Michael P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries …

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Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees

Baez, Javier E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera – a...

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Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe: For Money or Colonial Vestiges?

Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall …

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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella; Guerzoni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic …

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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …

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A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa

Andalón, Mabel; Fields, Gary - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization challenge, a …

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