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War and endogenous democracy
Ticchi, Davide (contributor); Vindigni, Andrea (contributor) - 2008
Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century occurred during or in the aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of international conflicts on domestic political institutions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688773
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Cross sections are history
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
and a unique rate of diffusion throughout the world. Suppose too that initially all countries are fairly closely bunched … follower countries in the various parts of the world fall in line in a similar geographic order. The result will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730828
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In-group cooperation in a hostile environment : an economic perspective on some aspects of Jewish life in (pre-modern) diaspora
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411192
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International migration in the long-run : positive selection, negative selection and policy
Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002352435
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Winter is coming : the long-run effects of climate change on conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat; Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - 2017
This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596150
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What makes a good conference? : analysing the preferences of labor economists
Borghans, Lex; Romans, Margo; Sauermann, Jan - 2010
respect to conference characteristics. Based on a sample of European labour economists, preferences are measured using the …) conferences. We find that the keynote speakers are the most important element in the preference for a conference, followed by the … location of the conference. There is substantial heterogeneity in the taste of labour economists especially with respect to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951335
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Experimental evidence on the effects of early meetings and activation
Maibom Pedersen, Jonas; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2012
We analyze the effects of four randomized social experiments, involving early and intensive active labour market policy, conducted in Denmark in 2008. The experiments entailed different combinations of early and intensive treatment in terms of meetings and active labour market programmes. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663989
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Conference presentations and academic publishing
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Pham, Tho; Talavera, Oleksandr - 2019
at three leading economics conferences over the 2006- 2012 period. The results show a positive link between conference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100586
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Did British women achieve long-term economic benefits from working in essential WWII industries?
Hart, Robert A. - 2009
involved owed their jobs to wartime industrial expansion. The majority of such women entered a world of work that had been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809700
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Recovery from work and the productivity of working hours
Pencavel, John H. - 2016
Observations on munition workers are organized to examine the relationship between their output each week, their working hours and days each week, and their working hours and days in adjacent weeks. The hypothesis is that workers need to recover from work and a long working week results in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518054