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The Knappschaft underlies Bismarck's sickness and accident insurance legislation (1883 and 1884), which in turn forms the basis of the German social-insurance system today and, indirectly, many social-insurance systems around the world. The Knappschaften were formed in the medieval period to...
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Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard models: if children are desirable in part because they provide security in case of disability or old age, then State programs that provide insurance against these events should...
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The Knappschaft underlies Bismarck’s sickness and accident insurance legislation (1883 and 1884), which in turn forms the basis of the German social-insurance system today and, indirectly, many social-insurance systems around the world. The Knappschaften were formed in the medieval period to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518186
our data. We integrate conflict data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) with spatially … disaggregated microdata to analyze how AOGLs influence conflict incidence across regions of Nigeria. Our findings indicate limited … laws have led to a slight increase in overall conflict within the states implementing them, arguably due to increased …
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We examine the link between violent attacks of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, forced migration, and the empowerment of women in host communities. We find positive effects of distant attacks on the economic well-being of women, their use of modern contraceptive methods, and rejection of...
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Immigration Database (IMDB), as well as the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)/ International Peace Research Institute in Oslo … (PRIO) Armed Conflict Dataset, we examine the effect of exposure to pre-migration conflict on the post-migration physical … health outcomes of immigrants to Canada. Our results demonstrate that immigrants from conflict zones face unique physical …
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Conflict parties are frequently involved into more than one conflict at a given time. In this paper the interrelated … structure of conflictive relations is modeled as a conflict network where opponents are embedded in a local structure of … bilateral conflicts. Conflict parties invest in specific conflict technology to attack their respective rivals and defend their …
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We study how norms can solve distributional conflict inside a clan and the efficient coordination of collective action … in a conflict with an external enemy.We characterize a fully non-cooperative equilibrium in a finite game in which a self …
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This paper studies a contest in which players with unobservable types may form an alliance in a pre-stage of the game to join their forces and compete for a prize. We characterize the pure strategy equilibria of this game of incomplete information. We show that if the formation of an alliance is...
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We study how norms can solve distributional conflict inside a clan and the efficient coordination of collective action … in a conflict with an external enemy.We characterize a fully non-cooperative equilibrium in a finite game in which a self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005548380