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Migrants from Ukraine and Belarus Living in Sweden Before the War
Andersson, Fredrik W.; Wadensjo, Eskil - 2022
The Russian war in Ukraine has led to many fleeing the country. The Temporary Protection Directive applies to those … from Ukraine but also those who received a residence permit in Ukraine as a refugee before 24 February 2022, as those who … have fled from Belarus to Ukraine in recent years. We can therefore expect that many refugees will come to Sweden from …
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The Relationship between Female Labor Force Participation and Violent Conflicts in South Asia
Robertson, Raymond - 2020
This paper explores the link between the prevalence of violent conflicts and extremely low female labor force participation rates (FLFPR) in South Asia. We merge Labor Force Surveys (LFSs) from Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, India, and Pakistan to the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) to estimate the...
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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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Determinants and Dynamics of Forced Migration to Europe : Evidence from a 3-D Model of Flows and Stocks
Brück, Tilman - 2018
Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull factors that might also cause irregular movements. In turn, the decision to leave and of where to go are rarely considered separately. This is in contrast to literature on regular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909987
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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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Learning the Hard Way : The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement
Brück, Tilman - 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...
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Ethnic Divisions and the Onset of Civil Wars in Syria
abosedra, salah; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir - 2021
differences. This paper attempts to identify the drivers of the Syrian civil war of 2011 by investigating the role of ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251534
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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...
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Cohort at Risk : Long-Term Consequences of Conflict for Child School Achievement
Jürges, Hendrik - 2017
We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment in primary school, studying cognitive and non-cognitive skills as possible causal channels. Our identification strategy exploits the locality-level variation in the intensity of...
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Child Discipline in Times of Conflict
Malcolm, Michael - 2017
techniques like redirection. While there is a general sense that war has profound long-term impacts on the psychological health … war on the civilian population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948576