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International Migration and Human Rights
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010
Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice, it encompasses the right to move internally within a country, the right to move abroad, and the right to return from abroad. It does not include the right of an individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137010
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Constitutional Rights and Education : An International Comparative Study
Edwards, Sebastian - 2014
We investigate whether the inclusion of social rights in political constitutions affects social performance. More specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational outcomes." We rely on data for 61 countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047404
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Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis
Alsan, Marcella; Braghieri, Luca; Eichmeyer, Sarah; … - 2021
Major crises—from terrorist attacks to outbreaks of disease—bring the trade-off between individual civil liberties and national security or well-being into sharp relief. In this paper, we study to what extent individual preferences for protecting rights and civil liberties are elastic to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221953
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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights
Qian, Nancy - 2010
This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147999
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White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy
Elliott, Kimberly Ann; Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
With the continuing expansion of global economic integration, labor standards in developing countries have become a hot button issue. One result has been a proliferation of efforts to use the market to put pressure directly on multinational corporations to improve wages and working conditions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246261
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HIV Status and Labor Market Participation in South Africa
Levinsohn, James A. - 2011
Africa. We rely on rich data on sexual behavior and knowledge of HIV from a large national household-based survey, which … provides the first nationally representative estimates of the impact of HIV status on labor market outcomes for southern Africa … inequalities in South Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127983
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Fifteen Years on : Household Incomes in South Africa
Leibbrandt, Murray - 2011
This paper uses national household survey data to examine changes in real per capita incomes in South Africa between … 1993 and 2008; the start and the end of the first fifteen years of post-apartheid South Africa. These data show an increase … services over the period. If these endowment changes were all that changed in South Africa over the post-apartheid period, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131678
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Prospective Analysis of a Wage Subsidy for Cape Town Youth
Levinsohn, James A. - 2011
Recognizing that a credible estimate of a wage subsidy's impact requires a model of the labor market that itself generates high unemployment in equilibrium, we estimate a structural search model that incorporates both observed heterogeneity and measurement error in wages. Using the model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122184
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Persecution Perpetuated : The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
Voigtländer, Nico - 2011
How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half of the population, its cause was unknown. Many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123982
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Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined? Evidence from British Immigrants
Christopoulou, Rebekka - 2013
We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082153