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Migrants from Ukraine and Belarus Living in Sweden before the War
Andersson, Fredrik W.; Wadensjö, 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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Military Intervention via Drone Strikes
Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 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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Determinants and Dynamics of Forced Migration to Europe: Evidence from a 3-D Model of Flows and Stocks
Brück, Tilman; Dunker, Kai M.; Ferguson, Neil T.N.; … - 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...
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Trade, peace and democracy: an analysis of dyadic dispute
Polachek, Solomon W.; Seiglie, Carlos - 2006
At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared peace is the natural effect of trade, a number of economists and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to peace. Employing resources wisely to produce one commodity rather than employing them inefficiently...
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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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Hometown Conflict and Refugees' Integration Efforts
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Khanna, Gaurav; Marino, Victoria; … - 2024
How does violence in origin areas affect the educational outcomes of refugees in their destinations? Using administrative panel data, we find that heightened violence in the hometowns of Syrian students leads to improvements in their school outcomes in Türkiye. Turkish language and Math scores...
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The Relationship between Female Labor Force Participation and Violent Conflicts in South Asia
Robertson, Raymond; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; Morales, Matias - 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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Employment Effects of Economic Sanctions in Iran
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2021
This paper investigates the effect of economic sanctions on employment. We exploit the imposition of a series of unexpected and unprecedented international economic sanctions on Iran in 2012 and estimate the short-run effects of the change in import exposure on manufacturing employment at the...
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Asylum Recognition Rates in Europe: Persecution, Policies and Performance
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2021
A minority of applicants for asylum in Europe gain some form of recognition as refugees, and this has been a controversial issue. From the early 2000s the EU introduced a series of directives to prevent a race to the bottom in asylum policies and to harmonise policy between destination countries...
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Persecution, Pogroms and Genocide: A Conceptual Framework and New Evidence
Becker, Sascha O.; Mukand, Sharun; Yotzov, Ivan - 2022
Persecution, pogroms, and genocide have plagued humanity for centuries, costing millions of lives and haunting survivors. Economists and economic historians have recently made new contributions to the understanding of these phenomena. We provide a novel conceptual framework which highlights the...
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