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Violent conflict and the child quantity-quality tradeoff
Nepal, Apsara Karki; Halla, Martin; Stillman, Steven - 2018
experienced a ten year long civil conflict of varying intensity. We exploit that villages affected by the conflict had the same … trend in fertility as non-affected villages prior to the onset of conflict and employ a difference-in-differences estimator …. We find that women in affected villages increased their actual and desired fertility during the conflict by 22 percent …
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Rationality as a barrier to peace: micro-evidence from Kosovo
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2007
Despite a significant expansion of the literature on conflicts and fragility of states, only a few systematic attempts have been made to link the theoretical literature on social conflicts to the available micro-level information about the people who are involved in these conflicts. We address...
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Seeds of distrust: Conflict in Uganda
Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011
We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade …
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The Rise and Fall of Swedish Unemployment
Holmlund, Bertil - 2003
By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several years but exhibited a marked fall from 1997 and...
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Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations
Alexius, Annika; Holmlund, Bertil - 2007
A widely spread belief among economists is that monetary policy has relatively short-lived effects on real variables such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more...
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LINDA - Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2000
This paper presents LINDA - a register-based longitudinal data set for Sweden. LINDA consists of a large panel of individuals, and their household members, which is representative for the population during the period 1960 to 1998. As future years become available, this information will be added...
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Economics of unlimited supply of labor and asymmetric power
Ertürk, Korkut - 2015
Since around 2000 the education premium and the level of employment in high-skill occupations has stagnated, if not actually begun to shrink. This brings into question the generally held view that in advanced countries, while potentially harmful for those who work with their hands, globalization...
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How physicians affect patients' employment outcomes through deciding on sick leave durations
Ahammer, Alexander - 2016
I analyze how general practitioners (GPs) indirectly affect their patients' employment outcomes by deciding on the length of sickness absences. I use an instrumental variables framework where spell durations are identified through supply-side certification measures estimated from the data. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615045
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Vulnerability to poverty: Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Ksennia; Lane, John Landon; … - 2016
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
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Wages and the value of nonemployment
Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin; Young, Samuel; … - 2018
Nonemployment is often posited as a worker's outside option in wage setting models such as bargaining and wage posting. The value of this state is therefore a fundamental determinant of wages and, in turn, labor supply and job creation. We measure the effect of changes in the value of...
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