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Military intervention via drone strikes
Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 2019
We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism in Pakistan, bearing responsibility for 16 percent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005283
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Herausbildung erster Wesenszüge des Normalarbeitsverhältnisses in Deutschland
Kendzia, Michael Jan - 2010
contract in Germany from the middle of the 19th century until the beginning of World War I. The beginning of the welfare state … in Germany took place during the 1880s on the basis of dependent employment. For the analysis of this type of employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780307
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Der Institutionalisierungsprozess des Lohnarbeitsverhältnisses vom Ersten bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg in Deutschland
Kendzia, Michael Jan - 2010
employment contract in Germany from the beginning of World War I until the outbreak of World War II. For this purpose, a model of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152424
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From the death of God to the rise of Hitler
Becker, Sascha O.; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2023
Can weakened religiosity lead to the rise of totalitarianism? The Nazi Party set itself up as a political religion, emphasizing redemption, sacrifice, rituals, and communal spirit. This had a major impact on its success: Where the Christian Church only had shallow roots, the Nazis received...
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Education promoted secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257347
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The long-term direct and external effects of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2011
This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational … residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with individual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our … identification strategy exploits the plausibly exogenous city-by-cohort variation in the Jewish population in Germany as a unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310948
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Employment industry and occupational continuity in Germany : from the Nazi regime to the post-war economic miracle
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2014
employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393898
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Learning to participate in politics : evidence from Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Okoye, Dozie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2017
Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany as a quasi-experiment. We find that the expulsion of Jewish professionals had long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664306
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On the origin and composition of the German East-West population gap
Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018
The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
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The rise and fall of the "Normalarbeitsverhältnis" in Germany
Pierenkemper, Toni - 2009
anachronistic and obsolete. -- Economic history ; standard employment ; Germany …The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the … consolidation of the welfare state, this type of employment was reinforced in Germany in the 20th century and finally developed into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825120