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We study the long-term economic legacy of highly-skilled minorities a century after their wholesale expulsion. Using mass expulsions of Armenian and Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century as a unique natural experiment of history, we show that districts with greater...
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This paper discusses political and economic aspects of Turkish accession. Under present rules, Turkey would have the … Turkey, particularly in agriculture. The main obstacles to accession are not economic, but political. Historical experience … prevents Turkey from eliminating the decisive political role of the military, giving Kurds and other minorities cultural rights …
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Turkey triggered by EU-membership; and (iii) migration in response to the free movement of workers. Overall, the … macroeconomic implications for EU countries are small but positive. European exports increase by around 20 percent. Turkey … accession to the internal market and free movement of labour. If Turkey would succeed in reforming its domestic institutions in …
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Recent empirical evidence suggests that the density of local economic activity measured as the number of employees per squared kilometer positively affects local average productivity. In this paper we use British data from the European Community Household Panel to ask whether local density...
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We investigate the prevalence of factors associated with participation in the sex market among men resident in Britain … using data from Britain's National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-2, 199-2001,Natsal-3, 2010-2012). The …
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with the NATO two percent target to which all NATO countries committed themselves during the NATO summit in Wales in 2014 …. The dataset includes the military expenditure by NATO countries over the period 2010-2018. The results suggest that … that did not experience such a large change of government since the NATO summit in 2014. Countries that experienced a large …
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,776 respondents from nine members of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. Quasi-experimental evidence …
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Twenty years of negotiations over reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) are yet to bear fruit. We use …
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body delegates decision-making to a subset of the members, as describes, e.g., the United Nations Security Council (UNSC …
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The United Nations Goldstone Report criminalized self-defense against state-sponsored or state-perpetrated terror. We use voting on the two UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the Goldstone Report to study whether support for the Goldstone principle of criminalization of self-defense...
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