This article provides an empirical investigation of the determinants of terrorism at the country level. In contrast … with the previous literature on this subject, which focuses on transnational terrorism only, I use a new measure of … terrorism that encompasses both domestic and transnational terrorism. In line with the results of some recent studies, this …

The literature on conflict and terrorism has paid little attention to the economic costs of terrorism for the …

all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to …

on terrorist attacks in the Middle East: Radical religious clubs are more lethal and choose suicide terrorism more often …, when they provide benign local public goods. Our results suggest benign tactics to counter terrorism by religious radicals …

We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …

A new lifecycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, lifecycle employment … new lifecycle of employment is initially high and flat, there is a dip in the middle and a phasing out that is more … and greater labor force recovery for those who take paid or unpaid leave. Increased employment of women in their older …

explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …

cohorts. It would appear that employment at older ages could stagnate or even decrease. But several other factors will be …