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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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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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Unemployment in the European Union: institutions, prices, and growth

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2003

This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor markets adjustment processes, (b) the interplay between these adjustment processes and the...

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Unemployment in the European Union: a dynamic reappraisal

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...

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Modelling the behaviour of unemployment rates in the US over time and across space

Holmes, Mark J.; Otero, Jesus; Panagiotidis, Theodore - 2013

This paper provides evidence that unemployment rates across US states are stationary and therefore behave according to the natural rate hypothesis. We provide new insights by considering the effect of key variables on the speed of adjustment associated with unemployment shocks. A...

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Gelir hareketliliği eşitsizlikleri azaltabilir mi? Türkiye örneği

Güven, Aytekin; Dalgıç, Başak; Tansel, Aysit - 2014

Increasing income inequality has made economists focus on income mobility issue which enables individuals to relocate their income position up to higher income groups. Income mobility and its effects on inequalities have begun to be investigated following 2000s and rather for developed countries...

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Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Dalgic, Basak; Guven, Aytekin - 2014

This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions (SILC). This is the first paper that explores wage mobility for Turkey. It differs from the existing literature by providing analyses of wage inequality and wage mobility over...

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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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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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