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Employment effects of economic sanctions in Iran
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2021
This paper investigates the effect of economic sanctions on employment. We exploit the imposition of a series of unexpected and unprecedented international economic sanctions on Iran in 2012 and estimate the short-run effects of the change in import exposure on manufacturing employment at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670656
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Who is to suffer? : quantifying the impact of sanctions on German firms
Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Mösle, Saskia - 2023
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 countermeasures. We find a substantial negative effect on both the extensive … dependent on Russia as an export market and those directly affected by the sanctions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279934
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Economic sanctions and informal employment
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2023
This paper examines how economic sanctions affect the allocation of workers across formal and informal employment. We analyse the case of the unprecedented sanctions imposed on Iran in 2012. Employing a difference-in-differences approach, we compare the probability of being employed in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423808
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The tragedy of corruption
Chen, Yefeng; Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016
We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the … over time. Reducing the size of the groups while increasing the probability of collective sanction diminishes the officials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528171
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Trade, peace and democracy : an analysis of dyadic dispute
Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor);  … - 2006
At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared "peace is the natural effect of trade," a number of economists and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to peace. Employing resources wisely to produce one commodity rather than employing them inefficiently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335452
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Shutdown contests in multi-plant firms and governmental intervention
Kräkel, Matthias - 2010
When a multi-plant firm must close one unit due to declining demand it can choose between two alternatives. On the one hand, the firm can announce a certain span of time in which the plants are evaluated according to relative performance with the least performing plant being shut down in the end...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003947945
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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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Asylum recognition rates in Europe: persecution, policies and performance
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2021
A minority of applicants for asylum in Europe gain some form of recognition as refugees, and this has been a controversial issue. From the early 2000s the EU introduced a series of directives to prevent a race to the bottom in asylum policies and to harmonise policy between destination countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698107
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Ethnic divisions and the onset of civil wars in Syria
Abosedra, Salah S.; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir - 2021
While most civil wars seem to have an economic basis, they are generally pushed by political, ethnic, and religious differences. This paper attempts to identify the drivers of the Syrian civil war of 2011 by investigating the role of ethnic divisions in starting a conflict. We integrate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012406061
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Child discipline in times of conflict
Malcolm, Michael; Diwakar, Vidya; Naufal, George - 2017
Using a unique pairing of household survey data and geolocational conflict data, we investigate the relationship between local conflict intensity and the disciplinary methods employed by Iraqi households. We find that parents in high-conflict areas are more likely to use both moderate and severe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716092