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Determinants and Dynamics of Forced Migration to Europe: Evidence from a 3-D Model of Flows and Stocks
Brück, Tilman; Dunker, Kai M.; Ferguson, Neil T.N.; … - 2018
violence, that drives decisions to leave. Out-of-sample predictions indicate that if conflict in origin countries were to cease …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931799
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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štĕpán; Roesel, Felix - 2021
How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582013
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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štepán; Roesel, Felix - 2021
How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597337
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Migration, violence and welfare programmes in rural Colombia
Mesnard, Alice - 2009
This paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence. By … matching detailed retrospective data on violence levels in Colombian rural municipalities with a household survey collected for … problems of the sample and the key issue of endogeneity of violence. The main results show that high levels of violence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275745
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Firm growth and the spatial impact of geolocated external factors: Empirical evidence for German manufacturing firms
Duschl, Matthias; Schimke, Antje; Brenner, Thomas; … - 2011
realistic relational space using travel time distances and using flexible distance decay function specifications. This approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307237
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Firm Growth and the Spatial Impact of Geolocated External Factors - Empirical Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Duschl, Matthias; Schimke, Antje; Brenner, Thomas; … - 2011
realistic relational space using travel time distances and using flexible distance decay function specifications. This approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011291800
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The Geography of R&D; Tobit Analysis and Bayesian Approach to Mapping R&D Activities for The Netherlands
Ouwersloot, Hans; Rietveld, Piet - 2000
Regions vary strongly according to the participation of firms in R&Dactivity.By linking data on R&D activity at thefirm level with GIS based data on economic, and other locationfeatures of zoneswe are able to investigate the impactof local factors on R&D involvement for various types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324390
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Knowledge hubs and knowledge clusters: Designing a knowledge architecture for development
Evers, Hans-Dieter - 2008
With globalisation and knowledge-based production, firms may cooperate on a global scale, outsource parts of their administrative or productive units and negate location altogether. The extremely low transaction costs of data, information and knowledge seem to invalidate the theory of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327414
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Capital as Power. A Study of Order and Creorder
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - 2009
Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists both think of capital as an 'economic' entity that they count in universal units of ‘utils’ or 'abstract labour', respectively....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646688
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Tensions and Trade-offs in Real-World Laboratories – The Participants' Perspective
Engels, Franziska; Rogge, Jan-Christoph - In: GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 27 (2018) Supplement 1, pp. 28-31
involved in these settings. Two case studies show the emerging tensions relating to participation, temporality and space, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011849700