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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...

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Bidding for brains: Intellectual property rights and the international migration of knowledge workers

McAusland, Carol; Kuhn, Peter - 2010

We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...

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Management of knowledge workers

Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - 2012

We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...

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Comparative essay on returns to education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 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 …

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How Civilian Attitudes Respond to the State's Violence: Lessons from the Israel- Gaza Conflict

Loewenthal, Amit; Miaari, Sami H.; Abrahams, Alexei - 2021

States, in their conflicts with militant groups embedded in civilian populations, often resort to policies of collective punishment to erode civilian support for the militants. We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of such policies in the context of the Gaza Strip, where Israel's blockade and...

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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...

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Aid and Radicalization: The Case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza

Loewenthal, Amit; Miaari, Sami H.; Hoeffler, Anke - 2021

In this paper we study how radical political factions secure support. In order to achieve their objective of gaining support, radical political factions can choose from a number of specific strategies. They can provide financial assistance and generate a reciprocal relationship with their...

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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. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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The Effects of Israeli Policies on Palestinians' Basic Needs in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem

Parigi, Marta; Oskorouchi, Hamid R. - 2024

This study quantitatively evaluates conclusions of NGOs, UN agencies, and the International Court of Justice denouncing the purported practices of apartheid by Israel. We gauge the impact of Israeli policies on Palestinian basic needs using a bespoke index and a novel instrumental variable...

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