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How outsourcing affects bilateral political relations

Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L'Esprit des Lois, argued, peace is the...

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Testing an EU-candidate's place on the maps of global economic, political and social values : the case of Turkey

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2014

measurement scales of global economic, political and social values and to assess Turkey's place on them. Our study, which is based … value development index ranks Morocco twelfth - just behind the USA. Turkey is ranked 25, ahead of several EU member … effective democracy, and there are very large regional differences, confirming the dictum by Huntington (1996) about Turkey as a …

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Asymmetric information under the Kafala sponsorship system : impacts on foreign domestic workers' income and employment status in the GCC countries

Malit, Froilan T. <Jr.>; Naufal, George - 2016

This paper examines the legal and policy implications of information asymmetry on foreign domestic workers employed under the Kafala sponsorship system in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Drawing from ethnographic and field-based observations in large GCC migrant destinations -...

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On the malleability of implicit attitudes towards women empowerment : evidence from Tunisia

Nillesen, Eleonora; Grimm, Michael; Goedhuys, Micheline; … - 2019

We use an implicit association test (IAT) to measure implicit gender attitudes and examine the malleability of these attitudes using a randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental data from Tunisia. Women that appear most conservative respond to a randomized video treatment by reducing...

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Did the Arab Spring reduce MENA countries' growth?

Araissi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir - 2019

This paper examines the economic ramifications of the recent political reconfigurations that the MENA region witnessed, commonly known as the Arab Spring, utilizing MENA countries data during period 2005-2016. Using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel estimation, the paper estimates a growth model...

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Measuring monetary poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region : data gaps and different options to address them

Atamanov, Aziz; Tandon, Sharad; López Acevedo, Gladys; … - 2020

This paper identifies gaps in availability, access, and quality of household budget surveys in the Middle East and North Africa region used to measure monetary poverty and evaluates ways to fill these information gaps. Despite improving public access to household budget surveys, the availability...

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The long-run effects of agricultural productivity on conflict, 1400-1900

Iyigun, Murat; Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - 2017

This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict. We construct a newly digitized and geo-referenced dataset of battles in Europe, the Near East and North Africa covering the period between 1400 and 1900 CE. For variation in...

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Fertility and the puzzle of female employment in the Middle East

Majbouri, Mahdi - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - 2018

Female labor force participation rates across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have remained low for over four decades, despite the fact that in the same period, women's education rapidly increased and fertility rates substantially decreased. This surprising phenomenon has remained...

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Inter-spousal communication in consanguineous marriages : evidence from Egypt

Rajan, Aastha; Naufal, George - 2018

This paper examines the relationship between consanguinity and frequency of communication between spouses using a nationally representative sample of young married respondents in Egypt. Using a variety of estimation techniques, the results suggest that being related to one's spouse does not...

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Openness and human capital as sources of productivity growth : an empirical investigation from the MENA countries

Haouas, Ilham (contributor); Yagoubi, Mahmoud (contributor) - 2005

This paper investigates the impact of openness to trade and higher levels of human capital on the economies of some MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use panel data on 16 countries spanning the 1965-2000...

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