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Disintegration and Trade
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2001
The gravity model of trade is utilized to assess the impact of disintegration on trade. The analysis is based on three recent disintegration episodes involving the firmer Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The results point to a very strong home bias around the time of disintegration,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313323
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Integration, disintegration and trade in Europe: Evolution of trade relations during the 1990s
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2000
-ups of multinational federations in Eastern Europe. The intensity of trade relations among the constituent parts of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301308
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The Balassa-Samuelson effect in 'East & West': Differences and similarities
Wagner, Martin - 2005
Based on two detailed Balassa-Samuelson (BS) studies, Wagner and Hlouskova (2004) for eight Central Eastern European countries (CEECs) and Wagner and Doytchinov (2004) for ten Western European countries (WECs), this study assesses the differences and similarities of the BS effect between these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293718
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Do the more-educated prefere smaller families?
Heiland, Frank; Prskawetz, Alexia; Sanderson, Warren C. - 2005
This study investigates the relationship between education and desired family size in Western Europe. Using rich … of the analysis with multinational data indicates that this novel relationship holds more broadly in Western Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352610
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Yuppie kvetch? Work-life conflict and social class in Western Europe
McGinnity, Frances; Calvert, Emma - 2008
Recent debates on time-use suggest that there is an inverse relationship between time poverty and income poverty (Aguiar and Hurst, 2007), with Hammermesh and Lee (2007) suggesting much time poverty is 'yuppie kvetch' or 'complaining'. Gershuny (2005) argues that busyness is the 'badge of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277653
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Who votes for right-wing populist parties in Europe?
Gunnarsson, Jonas - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306508
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Looking back on anger: Explaining the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in Western Europe, 1970-2007
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2012
A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in 17 Western European countries between 1970 and 2007. We argue that the differences in the historic roots, ultimate goals as well as their negotiability, levels of domestic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281914
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Disability-based labour market inequalities
Pettinicchio, David; Maroto, Michelle - 2024
Despite changing attitudes around disability over time, people with disabilities still face large barriers to labour market participation. We apply a sociological framework that considers both supply- and demand-side explanations for labour market inequality to help understand the continuing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015054234
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Trump II and US nuclear assurances to NATO: Policy options instead of alarmism
Horovitz, Liviu; Suh, Elisabeth - 2024
While a second Trump Presidency would be challenging for transatlantic ties, US nuclear assurances to its NATO allies … in Europe would likely be the last casualty - not the first - of a fraying relationship. There is an intrinsic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542221
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Die Neuvermessung der amerikanisch-europäischen Sicherheitsbeziehungen: Von Zeitenwende zu Zeitenwende
Kaim, Markus; Kempin, Ronja - 2024
Zeitenwende: Verteidigungsausgaben werden erhöht, kritische Fähigkeitslücken geschlossen. Die Nato stellt ihre Vitalität unter …- und Nato-Mitglieder umfassend gegen Russland zu schützen. Daher wird Berlin vom internationalen Krisenmanagement Abstand … Nato manifestieren. Den Finanzbedarf der Bundeswehr muss Berlin ernsthaft abdecken, wohl wissend, dass das vereinbarte Zwei …
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