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Movers or Stayers? Understanding the Drivers of IDP Camp Decongestion during Post-Conflict Recovery in Uganda
Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
aftermath of violent conflict. Our analysis is based on two sources of information: household survey data collected in northern … Uganda for households that were displaced by the civil conflict, and geo-referenced data on armed conflict events, with which … we construct our developed index of recent conflict exposure. We compare households that moved out of camps with those …
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Food aid and household food security in a conflict situation: Empirical evidence from Northern Uganda
Tusiime, Hamidu A.; Renard, Robrecht; Smets, Lodewijk - In: Food Policy 43 (2013) C, pp. 14-22
It is well-established that armed political conflict has a detrimental effect on food security and household welfare …: conflict induces food insecurity by reducing own food production, access to food through the market, and various other … conflict-affected households in Northern Uganda. We employ propensity score matching to estimate the average treatment effect …
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Conflicts, Poverty and Human Development in Northern Uganda
Nannyonjo, Justine - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005
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Does war influence individual expectations?
Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - In: Economics Letters 113 (2011) 3, pp. 288-291
We analyse the effect of mass violent conflict on individual expectations in Northern Uganda. We find that the … expectations of the future economic situation are negatively affected by recent conflict while the effect on broadly defined …
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Earnings Mobility and Inequality: An Integrated Framework
Gregg, Paul; Scutella, Rosanna; Vittori, Claudia - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2012
In this paper we propose an integrated framework for the analysis of earnings inequality and mobility, which enables the analysis of the distributional dimension of inequality reduction from mobility, an assessment of the economic drivers of mobility and a sense of which drivers are equalising...
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The Low-Pay No-Pay Cycle: Are There Systematic Differences across Demographic Groups?
Fok, Yin King; Scutella, Rosanna; Wilkins, Roger - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2013
We investigate transitions between unemployment, low-paid employment and higher-paid employment using household panel data for the period 2001 to 2011. Dynamic panel data methods are used to estimate the effects of labour force status on subsequent labour force status. A distinctive feature of...
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Reference-Dependent Effects of Unemployment on Mental Well-Being
Grunow, Martina - Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2014
Several contributions to the literature have shown that the perception of the individual employment status depends on the surrounding unemployment rate. We argue that expectations are a possible link between unemployment rates and the individual employment status regarding changes in mental...
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The Determinants of Job Stability in the UAE: Using Satisfaction Variables
Abdulrhman, Khalifa; Katsaiti, Selini - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015
This study investigates the job stability pattern in the United Arab Emirates and the effect of satisfaction on job stability for nationals and expatriates, in both the private and public sector, for male and female workers. It investigates the micro factors that affect the employee’s decision...
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Earnings Mobility and Inequality: An Integrated Framework
Gregg, Paul; Scutella, Rosanna; Vittori, Claudia - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2012
In this paper we propose an integrated framework for the analysis of earnings inequality and mobility, which enables the analysis of the distributional dimension of inequality reduction from mobility, an assessment of the economic drivers of mobility and a sense of which drivers are equalising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261662
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Impact of the Great Recession on unemployed and NEET individuals’ labour market transitions in Ireland
Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, Seamus - In: Economic Systems 39 (2015) 1, pp. 59-71
The impact that the Great Recession has had on countries’ labour markets has been well documented. In Ireland, the contraction in economic activity that took place resulted in the country's overall unemployment rate increasing from 4.6% in 2006 to 15% in 2012. The country's youth unemployment...
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