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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in … Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school).Finally, it was found that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121333
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Could Education Promote the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process?
El-Attar, Mayssun - 2009
situation of peace, highly educated individuals are more strongly affected by current depressed economic conditions in Palestine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155547
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Security, Trade, and Political Violence
Amodio, Francesco - 2017
To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and people. These restrictions have negative economic consequences, possibly increasing the supply of political violence. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the restrictions...
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How is the Covid-19 Crisis Exacerbating Socioeconomic Inequality Among Palestinians in Israel?
Miaari, Sami H. - 2020
The paper gives us a first look on the unique effects of the crisis on the Arab minority in Israel. It contributes to our understanding on how economic and epidemic crises affect marginalized ethnic minorities and informs decision makers while formulating policies to deal with the crisis's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822824
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Female Labor Force Participation in Five Selected MENA Countries : An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)
Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysit - 2021
namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315083
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Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence
Paserman, M. Daniele; Jaeger, David A. - 2021
In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian factions and that committed by Israel during the Second Intifada. We find a statistically significant relationship between Israeli fatalities claimed by groups associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318040
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Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy : Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model
Pflüger, Michael - 2011
The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms that merely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The establishment of a canonical model due to Melitz (2003) has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118266
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The Crisis, Policy Reactions and Attitudes to Globalization and Jobs
Bell, David N.F. - 2011
We consider the effects of the financial crisis and subsequent recession on world labour markets. It begins by cataloguing the adverse effects on output of the sudden collapse in demand brought about by the financial crisis in what has come to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125468
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Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085480
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Views Among Economists : Professional Consensus or Point-Counterpoint?
Gordon, Roger H. - 2013
To what degree do economists disagree about key economic questions? To provide evidence, we make use of the responses to a series of questions posed to a distinguished panel of economists put together by the Chicago School of Business. Based on our analysis, we find a broad consensus on these...
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