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The relationship between stature and insolation : evidence from soldiers and prisoners

Carson, Scott Alan - 2009

stature and insolation was remarkably similar between white soldiers and prisoners, adding to the evidence that there is a …

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The decline in the nutritional status of the U.S. antebellum population at the onset of modern economic growth

A'Hearn, Brian; Komlos, John - 2015

proportion of shorter men to volunteer for military service thereby driving down the mean height of soldiers even if the height … height of soldiers beginning with the birth cohorts of the early 1830s is representative of the trend in the physical stature …

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Biological well-being in late 19th century Philippines

Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Dovis, Marion; Komlos, John - 2015

soldiers enlisted by the U.S. military between 1901 and 1913. We use truncated regression technique for estimating average … decline of more than 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) in the height of soldiers born between the early 1870s and the late 1880s. The … also find that at 159.3 cm (62.7 inches), the average height of soldiers born in the mid-1870s was very short even for the …

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How free trade can help convert the 'Arab Spring' into permanent peace and democracy

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Martínez, Inmaculada; Wijkman, … - 2012

Since Jean Monnet conceived the Coal and Steel Community, free trade has successfully prevented serious conflicts in Europe between democratically governed States with market economies. After six countries established the European Community, this principle has been extended successfully to its...

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Which conflicts can the European neighbourhood policy help resolve?

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Wijkman, Per Magnus - 2012

Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...

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Self-enforcing peace agreements that preserve the status quo

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2021

On the basis of a single-period, guns-versus-butter, complete-information model in which two agents dispute control over an insecure portion of their combined output, we study the choice between a peace agreement that maintains the status quo without arming (or unarmed peace) and open conflict...

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International trade and stable resolutions of resource disputes

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2022

We consider a dynamic setting in which two sovereign states with overlapping ownership claims on a resource/asset ﬁrst arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute violently through war or peacefully through settlement. Both approaches depend on the states' military capacities, but...

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The value of formal host-country education for the labour market position of refugees : evidence from Austria

Ludolph, Lars - 2021

Refugees hosted across the developed world often work in low-quality jobs, regardless of education previously attained in their country of origin. In this paper, I analyse the long-term value of formal host-country education for refugees using the example of forcefully displaced Bosnians who...

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Can job search assistance improve the labour market integration of refugees? : evidence from a field experiment

Battisti, Michele; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018

We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone...

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The effect of extending the duration of eligibility in an Italian labour market programme for dismissed workers

Paggiaro, Adriano (contributor); Rettore, Enrico (contributor) - 2008

Liste di mobilità (LM) is an Italian labour market programme targeted to dismissed workers. There is a "passive" component granting monetary benefits to employees dismissed by firms larger than 15 employees, and an "active" component providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers...

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