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Between the Dockyard and the Deep Blue Sea : Retention and Personnel Economics in the Royal Navy
Glaser, Darrell; Rahman, Ahmed - 2021
This paper tackles some issues in personnel economics using the career profiles of British naval officers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We ask how promotions, payouts, positions, and peers affect worker retention. Random variation in task assignments and job promotions allows us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250773
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Winter is Coming : The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat - 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/10012965017
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Demographic Divide and Labor Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2011
This paper provides a demographic outlook of the Euro-Mediterranean region and then shows the economic and fiscal consequences of such demographic differences within a two-region model with international labor mobility. International labor mobility is also examined through an externalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117397
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Child-Care and Participation in the Labor Market for Married Women in Mediterranean Countries
Nicodemo, Catia - 2009
Parents in the labor force have balance their work and home life, including the choice of the type of care to provide for their children while they work. In this paper we study the connection between the married women's labor force participation, child care arrangements and the time that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764693
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Economic Growth and Pollutant Emissions : New Panel Evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean Countries
Ben Abdeljelil, Mouna; Rault, Christophe; Bélaïd, Fateh - 2023
This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263927
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Wars and Child Health : Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict
Akresh, Richard - 2011
This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and … sites to more accurately measure a child's war exposure. War-exposed children in both countries have lower height-for-age Z …-scores, with the children in the war-instigating and losing country (Eritrea) suffering more than the winning nation (Ethiopia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128230
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Drawn into Violence : Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries
Lindo, Jason M. - 2010
Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military service on crime. Using exact dates of birth for inmates in state and federal prisons in 1979, 1986, and 1991, we find robust evidence of effects on violent crimes among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138262
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War and Women's Work : Evidence from the Conflict in Nepal
Menon, Nidhiya - 2011
war on women's employment decisions. Results indicate that as a result of the Maoist-led insurgency, women's employment … probabilities were substantially higher in 2001 and 2006 relative to the outbreak of war in 1996. These employment results also hold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117180
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Deployments, Combat Exposure, and Crime
Anderson, D. Mark - 2013
, Colorado. These units were repeatedly deployed during the Iraq War, allowing us to measure the effect of arguably exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072159
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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. - 2012
Strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, have been the primary weapon used by the United States to combat the 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112783