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Borderline disorder: (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294782
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Does official development assistance affect donor's export? : case of Korea
Noh, Bobae; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
This paper aims to estimate the impact of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Korea on its bilateral export to recipient countries. The empirical analysis is based on data from 1996 to 2014 with 121 recipient countries. Although the two models of determinants of ODA and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612988
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Low pay persistence in European countries
Clark, Kenneth; Kanellopoulos, Nikolaos C. - 2009
Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847125
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Mental health and working conditions in European countries
Cottini, Elena; Lucifora, Claudio - 2010
Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937034
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Tax and transfer policies and the female labor supply in the EU
Kalíšková, Klára - 2015
This study contributes to the female labor supply responsiveness literature by measuring the effect of tax-benefit policies on female labor supply based on a broad sample of 26 European countries in 2005-2010. The tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD is used to calculate a measure of work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502756
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Europe agreements and trade balance : evidence from four new EU members
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2011
This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009296317
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Employment dynamics of married women in Europe
Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor);  … - 2005
We use eight waves from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to analyze the intertemporal labor supply behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom) using dynamic binary choice models with different initial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003039651
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Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts
Akresh, Richard; Caruso, Germán; Thirumurthy, Harsha - 2016
We estimate the impact of exposure to conflict on health outcomes using geographic information on households' distance … from conflict sites - a more accurate measure of shock exposure – and compare the impact on children exposed in utero … versus after birth. The identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580590
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Determinants and dynamics of forced migration to Europe : evidence from a 3-D model of flows and stocks
Brück, Tilman; Dunker, Kai M.; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; … - 2018
Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull … significant economic variable. In addition, we demonstrate that it is episodes of escalating conflict, rather than accumulated … violence, that drives decisions to leave. Out-of-sample predictions indicate that if conflict in origin countries were to cease …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913541
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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism
Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006
rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the … military conquests in Europe significantly reduced intra-European feuds. -- cooperation ; conflict ; religion ; institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278952