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Labor migration: Macroeconomic and demographic outlook for Europe and neighbourhood regions
Borgy, Vladimir; Chojnicki, Xavier - 2008
In this paper, we assess the demographic and economic consequences of migrations in Europe and neighbourhood countries. In order to do so, we rely on a multi-region world overlapping generations model (INGENUE2). The rich modeling framework of this multi-regions model allows us to put into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430802
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The external dimension of EU justice and home affairs: Tools, processes, outcomes
Balzacq, Thierry - 2008
This working document offers a conceptual framework for understanding the processes underpinning the external dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs (ED-JHA). Practically, it defines how the export of JHA principles and norms inform the geopolitical ambitions of the EU, i.e. the use of space...
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The mixed legacy of the European Neighbourhood policy: The Moroccan exception
Calcan, Dragoș-Ștefan - In: CES Working Papers 12 (2020) 4, pp. 322-336
Since the creation of the European Neighbourhood Policy, the EU has aimed to create a ring of stability outside its borders, in its eastern and southern neighbourhoods. In this challenging landscape, going from east to south, one of the few European successes in terms of neighbourhood policy has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496835
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Precision-guided or blunt? The effects of US economic sanctions on human rights
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016
We use endogenous treatment-regression models to estimate the causal average treatment effect of US economic sanctions on four types of human rights. In contrast to previous studies, we find no support for adverse effects of sanctions on economic rights, political and civil rights, and basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537405
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Precision-Guided or Blunt? The Effects of US Economic Sanctions on Human Rights
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016
This study contributes to the literature that analyzes the consequences of economic sanctions for the target country’s human rights situation. We offer a political economy explanation for different types of human rights infringements or improvements in reaction to economic shocks caused by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586870
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A Lipsetian Theory of Democratization: Development, Education, Inequality, and Resources
Boucekkine, Raouf; Piacquadio, Paolo Giovanni; Prieur, … - 2016
The paper reexamines Lipset’s theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that … explanation of the positive relationship between economic development, education, and democratization, and of the negative … relationship between inequality and democratization. Furthermore, we obtain new insights on the resources-curse hypothesis and on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615838
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Precision-Guided or Blunt? The Effects of US Economic Sanctions on Human Rights
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016
We use endogenous treatment-regression models to estimate the causal average treatment effect of US economic sanctions on four types of human rights. In contrast to previous studies, we find no support for adverse effects of sanctions on economic rights, political and civil rights, and basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621176
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Precision-guided or blunt? The effects of US economic sanctions on human rights
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016
We use endogenous treatment-regression models to estimate the causal average treatment effect of US economic sanctions on four types of human rights. In contrast to previous studies, we find no support for adverse effects of sanctions on economic rights, political and civil rights, and basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624336
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Volunteering and the State
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009
(consensual crowding out). And finally, the more a government supports democratization, the lower is the individual's engagement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310682
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Magic and witchcraft: Implications for Democratization and poverty-alleviating aid in Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - In: World Development 24 (1996) 8, pp. 1347-1355
The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and social class of the people concerned. According to many Africans its incidence is even increasing due to social stress and strain caused (among others) by the process of...
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