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How civilian attitudes respond to the state's violence: lessons from the Israel-Gaza conflict
Loewenthal, Amit; Miaari, Sami H.; Abrahams, Alexei - 2021
States, in their conflicts with militant groups embedded in civilian populations, often resort to policies of collective punishment to erode civilian support for the militants. We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of such policies in the context of the Gaza Strip, where Israel's blockade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648941
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Violent conflict exposure in Nigeria and economic welfare
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2019
Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on several education, health and socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from the past research is the heterogeneity in the effect of violent conflict across and within countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100352
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Exposure to neighborhood violence and child-parent conflict among a longitudinal sample of Dutch adolescents
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Best, Matt; Vogel, Matt; Ham, Maarten van - 2021
An extensive body of research has documented the deleterious effects of community violence on adolescent development and behavior. Much of this research focuses on how exposure violence structures social interaction, and, ultimately, how it motivates youth to engage in troublesome behavior. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596064
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Modeling immigrants' language skills
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2007
One in nine people between the ages of 18 and 64 in the US, and every second foreign-born person in this age bracket, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the US from non-English speaking countries other than Mexico are proficient in English, only about 50...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635218
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Thieves, thugs, and neighborhood poverty
Bjerk, David - 2009
across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative … with the empirical evidence. -- Poverty ; crime ; neighborhood effects ; segregation ; instrumental variables ; public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902147
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Living and working in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency of immigrants in US metropolitan areas
Beckhusen, Julia; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Graaff, … - 2012
study uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey to examine the impact of residential and occupational segregation on … immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language … those who are less residentially and occupationally segregated. The magnitude of the effect of segregation on language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009531439
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Are ghettos good or bad? : evidence from US internal migration
Zhang, Junfu; Liang, Zheng - 2014
It is difficult to determine whether ghettos are good or bad, partly because racial segregation may have some effects … overall effects of racial segregation. The key idea underlying our empirical approach is that if segregation indeed has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341251
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Spatial versus social mismatch : the strength of weak ties
Zenou, Yves - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230715
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The persistent segregation of girls into lower-paying jobs while in school
Kooreman, Peter (contributor) - 2005
This paper analyzes gender differences in jobs while in high school. The availability of school class based samples with detailed information on teenage jobs allows for a comparison of the behavior of boys and girls who are in the same school class, and thus have virtually identical education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002693938
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Spatial mismatch: from the hypothesis to the theories
Gobillon, Laurent (contributor); Selod, Harris (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001744062