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Who is to suffer? : quantifying the impact of sanctions on German firms
Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Mösle, Saskia - 2023
In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour and performance of German firms. More specifically, we study the sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia in 2014 in response to the annexation of Crimea and Russia's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279934
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Are drone strikes effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? : on the dynamics of violence between the United States and the Taliban
Jaeger, David A.; Siddique, Zahra - 2011
Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any …/Al-Qaeda violence in Pakistan. We find that our results are robust to examining different time periods and lag structures. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529262
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452365
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Social change
Greenwood, Jeremy (contributor); Guner, Nezih (contributor) - 2008
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716525
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The lot of the unemployed : a time use perspective
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716529
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality : a factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna (contributor);  … - 2008
SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716531
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Immigrants and welfare programmes : exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence and welfare policy
Barrett, Alan (contributor); McCarthy, Yvonne (contributor) - 2008
The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716533
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The effect of minimum wages on immigrants' employment and earnings
Orrenius, Pia M. (contributor);  … - 2008
This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716537
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Training background and early retirement
Montizaan, Raymond (contributor);  … - 2008
Several studies show that employees with firm-specific skills are more likely to be covered by employer-sponsored pension schemes than workers with general skills. Therefore it can be expected that workers with firm-specific skills retire earlier. This paper tests this prediction using US data...
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Immigrant labor, child care services, and the work fertility trade-off in the United States
Furtado, Delia (contributor); Hock, Heinrich (contributor) - 2008
The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of low-skilled immigrants has led to a substantial reduction in the trade-off between work and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719621