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Forced displacement in history : some recent research

Becker, Sascha O. - 2022

economic history. While many of the episodes covered refer to Europe, this survey points to literature across all continents …

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Refugee resettlement, redistribution and growth

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2018

This paper studies the effect of refugee resettlement on human capital accumulation. The analysis is performed in a … growth model with endogenous fertility. I show how refugee resettlement from a more advanced and wealthier economy to a less … countries. I also derive conditions for the proposed resettlement policy to stimulate human capital accumulation and hence …

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Forced migration, staying minorities, and new societies : evidence from post-war Czechoslovakia

Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štěpán; Rösel, Felix - 2021

How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...

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Temporary internal displacement and receiving communities' voting behavior

Carrozzo, Salvatore - 2025

This paper investigates the effect of a temporary forced internal migration on the voting behavior in the receiving municipalities. During World War I, around 500,00 thousand displaced nationals were resettled from the Italian government within the country and stayed in the receiving place for...

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'Whatever is, is right? : Economic institutions in pre-industrial Europe (Tawney lecture 2006)

Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. (contributor) - 2007

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State or private security supply? : an analysis from the institutional economics perspective

Bretschneider, Wolfgang; Freytag, Andreas; Rieckmann, … - 2022

The issue of internal security has become increasingly complex over the past decades. As there is an increasing overlap between private and public provision of security, the question of how to allocate responsibility for security between the public sphere (state) and the private sphere has...

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The economics of international differences in educational achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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World heritage list : does it make sense?

Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2010

The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World Heritage List is beneficial where heritage sites are undetected, disregarded by national decision-makers, not commercially exploitable, and where national financial resources,...

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Natural resources : curse or blessing?

Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2010

Are natural resources a "curse" or a "blessing"? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a resource...

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Labor market policy : a comparative view on the costs and benefits of labor market flexibility

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010

I review theories and evidence on labor market policies and institutions in an international context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies. Scandinavia and Central...

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