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Brain drain in the age of mass migration: Does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 2012
Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...
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How government bond prices reflect wartime events: The case of the Stockholm market
Waldenström, Daniel; Frey, Bruno S. - 2002
. Unlike in countries involved in WWII, this market was unregulated. The outbreak of World War II heavily depressed prices of … substantially. The battle of Stalingrad turns out indeed to be a turning-point of the war. This approach represents a complementary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281153
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Does conflict disrupt growth? Evidence of the relationship between political instability and national economic performance
Polachek, Solomon W.; Sevastianova, Daria - 2010
variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269690
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Violent conflict and inequality
Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010
focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …
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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
focus on World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS), and propose suggestions on how to improve questionnaires …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272662
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Economic Costs of Mass Violent Conflicts: Final Report for the Small Arms Survey, Geneva, Switzerland
Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Drautzburg, Thorsten; … - 2008
COW and the UCDP/PRIO for conflicts and the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators for socioeconomic data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438798
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Becker, Sascha O.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2007
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...
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Cartels, managerial incentives, and productive efficiency in German coal mining, 1881-1913
Burhop, Carsten; Lübbers, Thorsten - 2008
In this paper, we evaluate the impact of cartelisation and managerial incentives on the productive efficiency of German coal mining corporations. We focus on coal mining in the Ruhr district, Germany's main mining area. We use stochastic frontier analysis and an unbalanced dynamic panel data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264842
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War and endogenous democracy
Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2008
Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century occurred during or in the aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of international conflicts on domestic political institutions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268686
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Uncertainty and exchange rate volatility: The case of Mexico
López Noria, Gabriela; Bush, Georgia - 2019
This paper investigates the effect of uncertainty on the volatility of the Mexican peso U.S. dollar exchange rate for the period 1999 - 2018. The empirical analysis consists on estimating a model by OLS and System GMM that includes measures of economic, political, and financial uncertainty, both...
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