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Recent studies in general are positive regarding the effectiveness of US counterinsurgency programs in Iraq. The right mix of coercion, ethnic strategy, and public goods provision, it is argued, makes Iraqis less likely to rebel against the US army and the Iraqi government, thus reducing...
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This study provides circumstantial evidence for the impact of permits for employment in Israel on the Palestinian labor … that merges data from the Palestinian Labor Force Survey with Israeli administrative data on permits for employment in … Israel. The study quantifies the increase in Palestinian employment in the Israeli and Palestinian economies and the decrease …
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This paper investigates an important but neglected issue regarding the economic role of defence spending on employment … in Taiwan. The study herein adopts official time series data of yearly defence spending, employment in the private sector … to benefit the employment situation in the long run, but damages employment in the short run, which is reasonable but …
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Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in … enforced remains to be seen. For the time being, de facto employment protection is far less than de jure, with an enduring … wages, nor are they effectively enforced. During the recent slowdown, average wages adjusted rapidly and employment was soon …
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decomposes the effect on the average daily wages, days worked, and employment. <p> It also illuminates the distributional impacts …. Closure has a negative <p> and significant effect on the wages, workdays, and employment outcome in the West Bank and Gaza …
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The book is an edited volume of different perspectives on the South Asian region and captures the political, social and economic challenges facing the region following the financial crisis and the region's responses to these challenges.
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This paper considers the extent to which terrorism in Africa and South Asia is an economic good that can be explained …-aim oriented. Such a consideration is important for enabling security measures that are likely to be effective against terrorism in … Africa and South Asia. If for example, terrorism is motivated largely by existential other-worldly goals, standard security …
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This paper considers the extent to which terrorism in Africa and South Asia is an economic good that can be explained …-aim oriented. Such a consideration is important for enabling security measures that are likely to be effective against terrorism in … Africa and South Asia. If for example, terrorism is motivated largely by existential other-worldly goals, standard security …
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The easing of economic sanctions against Myanmar by Western countries in 2012 augmented the prospect that Myanmar would expand its exports. However, a sharp rise in natural resource exports during the time sanctions had been applied raises concern about the so-called Dutch disease. This study...
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This paper examines the evolving dynamics between economic globalization and Asian regional interdependence, and asks whether and how the global financial crisis impacted Asian regionalism. The analysis suggests that the global crisis did trigger advances in regional policy cooperation from 2007...
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