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Military Intervention Via Drone Strikes
Mahmood, Rafat - 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...
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Historical Roots of Political Extremism : The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy
Fontana, Nicola - 2017
The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy and when, for the first time in a generation, Italians were choosing political affiliations and forming political identities. In this paper we study how these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962292
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Education Promoted Secularization
Becker, Sascha O. - 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/10013057049
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The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 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/10013122121
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Learning to Participate in Politics : Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 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/10012955040
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Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014
Bartels, Charlotte - 2018
This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present … of the millennium, income concentration in Germany has been on the rise and is today among the highest in Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909983
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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/10013049073
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Management Compensation and the Economic Crisis : Longitudinal Evidence from the German Chemical Sector
Grund, Christian - 2013
Making use of unique balanced panel data for the German chemical sector from the years 2008 to 2011, we explore the extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the extent to which it increased afterwards. Carrying out longitudinal analyses, we find that, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080144
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Employer Preferences and Social Policy : Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany Since World War I
Emmenegger, Patrick - 2010
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141224
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The Rise of the East and the Far East : German Labor Markets and Trade Integration
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104067