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We examine the comovements between the output indexes of three German sectors (manufacturing, mining, and agriculture …
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We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight … (<20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints of more distant firms relax. The negative local impact of mining …
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-intensive, mining booms cause virtually no upward pressure on manufacturing earnings per worker, and both producers of traded and local … goods benefit from mining booms in terms of employment. In contrast, labour-intensive mining booms drive up local …
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to study the impact of economic sanctions on international trade in the mining sector, which includes oil and natural gas …. We demonstrate that the gravity equation is well suited to model bilateral trade in mining and find that sanctions have … been effective in impeding mining trade. Our analysis reveals that complete trade sanctions have reduced bilateral mining …
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. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in … (planned and unplanned) mining projects in Sierra Leone. A crucial insight is that new mining projects do not necessarily …
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We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at … positive impact of mining on conict at the local level. Quantitatively, the historical rise in prices (commodity super …-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …
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We study whether the spatial distribution of natural resources across different ethnic groups within countries impede spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for...
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. We show that free entry places an upper-bound on mining revenues and we devise a structural framework to measure its …
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Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
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Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes how a minimum wage affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a statutory minimum wage of EUR 7.50 per hour would cost...
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