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Bruno, Bruna; Fiorillo, Damiano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The effects of voluntary work on earnings have recently been studied for some developed countries such as Canada, France and Austria. This paper extends this line of research to Italy, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) dataset. A double...

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Voluntary work and labour income

Bruno, Bruna; Fiorillo, Damiano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The paper studies the effect of voluntary work on labour income for Italian employees. The Heckman and Instrumental Variables methods are used in order to control for self-selection bias of participation in labour market and endogeneity of volunteering. The results show that a wage premium of 3...

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New Wars on the Balkans - Business as Usual

Genchev, Vassil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The monopoly over the exercise of violence is the main defining element of states according to the Weberian ideal …

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Continuing Conflict and Stalemate: A Note

Caruso, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This note is about the possibility of a stalemate in a continuing conflict. Following the prevailing economic literature on the topic, under some assumptions, the outcome of a conflict can be described in two ways: (i) a predetermined split of a contested output; (ii) a winner-take-all contest...

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The scientist and the church

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...

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How Crime can Affect Economic Performance through the Application of an ECM-Model: the Case of Guatemala

Ruiz Estrada, M.A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Crime has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. The central objective of this paper is to set forth a model – the economics of crime monitoring model (ECM-Model) – to evaluate the impact of crime can...

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New Wars in Numbers. An exploration of various datasets on intra-state violence.

Rigterink, Anouk S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

has the violence against civilians over the period 1989-2010. Evidence on the participation of non-state combatants is …

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Violence and human security policy relevance of a central health linkage

Meddings, David; Bettcher, Douglas; Ghafele, Roya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Violence, as a human security threat, constitutes a core public health issue. Finally, in an era of globalized threats … requiring international cooperation, the discussion focuses on the interstate spillover effects of violence, or in other words …” in the 21st century; in particular our analysis focuses on the implications of the violence case study for …

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How Crime can Affect Economic Performance through the Application of an ECM-Model: the Case of Guatemala

Estrada, Ruiz; Arturo, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

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Understanding international crime trends: The legacy of preschool lead exposure

Nevin, Rick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This study shows a very strong association between preschool blood lead and subsequent crime rate trends over several decades in the USA, Britain, Canada, France, Australia, Finland, Italy, West Germany, and New Zealand. The relationship is characterized by best-fit lags (highest R2 and t-value...

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