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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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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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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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Has the willingness to work fallen during the Covid pandemic?

Faberman, R. Jason; Müller, Andreas; Şahin, Ayşegül - 2022

We examine the effect of the Covid pandemic on willingness to work along both the extensive and intensive margins of labor supply. Special survey questions in the Job Search Supplement of the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) allow us to elicit information about individuals' desired work...

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Monetary policy and Swedish unemployment fluctuations

Alexius, Annika; Holmlund, Bertil - 2008

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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Municipal activation policy: A case study of the practical work with unemployed social assistance recipients

Thorén, Katarina Hjertner - 2005

In the 1990s, many municipalities developed local activation programs for social assistance recipients as a response to increasing social assistance expenditures. This study investigates the practical implementation of municipal activation policies in two different activation programs,...

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On the evaluation of economic mobility

Gottschalk, Peter; Spolaore, Enrico - 2001

This paper presents a framework for the evaluation and measurement of reversal and origin independence as separate aspects of economic mobility. We show how that evaluation depends on aversion to multi-period inequality, aversion to inter-temporal fluctuations, and aversion to future risk. We...

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The labor market impact of a taxi driver's license

Karadja, Mounir; Sundberg, Anton - 2023

We study the economic impact of becoming a taxi driver. Comparing individuals who pass the necessary written exams for a taxi driver's license to individuals who have not yet done so, we find that both immigrants and natives who enter into taxi driving have experienced negative employment...

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Professional networks and the labour market assimilation of immigrants

Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias; Willis, Sébastien - 2024

We study how professional networks are related to immigrant labour market integration. Matched employer-employee data for Sweden show that networks grow with time in the host country and that their composition changes from immigrant toward native network members. A firm-dyadic analysis of...

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Labor-market performance in the OECD: an assessment of recent evidence

Destefanis, Sergio; Mastromatteo, Giuseppe - 2009

In this paper we assess the evolution of labor-market performance in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) over the last decade. We provide a survey of the literature dealing with labor-market performance in the OECD, finding that, while this literature tends to...

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