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Trade policy and labor services : final status options for the West Bank and Gaza
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001926831
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Aid and radicalization: the case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza
Loewenthal, Amit; Miaari, Sami H.; Hoeffler, Anke - 2021
In this paper we study how radical political factions secure support. In order to achieve their objective of gaining support, radical political factions can choose from a number of specific strategies. They can provide financial assistance and generate a reciprocal relationship with their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506483
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Learning the hard way : the effect of violent conflict on student academic achievement
Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; Miaari, Sami H. - 2014
We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415444
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Obstacles on the road to school: the impacts of mobility restrictions on educational performance
Miaari, Sami H.; Lee, Ines - 2020
This paper examines the impact of mobility restrictions on educational performance in the West Bank over 2000-2006 during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is characterized by a system of mobility restrictions enforced through physical barriers such as checkpoints. Using novel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259298
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Alternative composite Lisbon development strategy indices
Heshmati, Almas (contributor); Oh, Jong-Eun (contributor) - 2005
This study addresses the measurement of two composite Lisbon strategy indices that quantifies the level and patterns of development for ranking countries. The first index is nonparametric labelled as Lisbon strategy index (LSI). It is composed of six components: general economics, employment,...
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Are immigrants competing with natives in the Italian labour market? : the employment effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410707
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Gender in jeopardy! : the role of opponent gender in high-stakes competition
Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2016
Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender differences disappear when women compete against men. This result is surprising, but emerges with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450245
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Productivity dynamics : the role of competition in a service industry
Breda, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2019
changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …
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How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012015779
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What drives differences in management?
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017
: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641779