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The Impact of the War 1991: 1995 on the Croatian Economy: A Contribution to the Analysis of War Economies
Schönfelder, Bruno - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2005
The economics of the Croatian war differ considerably from what is often thought of as typical features of a war economy. Most strikingly, while wars are often perceived as generating a tendency towards repressed inflation and a command economy the Croatian economy actually moved in the opposite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207015
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Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees
Baez, Javier E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera – a region in northwestern Tanzania – received more than 500,000 refugees … intensity. I exploit this variation to investigate the short and long run causal effects of hosting refugees on the outcomes of …-cohort variation and find that childhood exposure to this massive arrival of refugees reduced height in early adulthood by 1.8 cm (1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823005
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Violence Against Civilians in Civil Wars: Looting or Terror?
Azam, Jean-Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059825
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Boundaries and Conflict in the Mano River Region of West Africa
Silberfein, Marilyn; Conteh, Al-Hassan - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 23 (2006) 4, pp. 343-361
emergence and spread of conflict in Africa in the last decade. This study uses the Mano River Region—Sierra Leone, Guinea … economic malaise in Africa, the potential certainly exists for more challenges to extant boundaries. If porous borders come …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010770236
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The Geo-Politics of Forced Migration in Africa, 1992—2001
Iqbal, Zaryab - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 24 (2007) 2, pp. 105-119
the most significant. I examine the determinants of international refugee flows in Africa during the period from 1992 to … volumes of refugees. My findings confirm the strong influence of distance on the levels of refugee flows. Although I find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010770270
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Zutritt zur Festung Europa? Neue Anforderungen an eine moderne Asyl- und Flüchtlingspolitik
Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Die anhaltenden Asyl- und Flüchtlingsströme und der Antritt der neuen Europäischen Kommission am 1. November 2014 bieten Anlass für eine Debatte über ein Umdenken in der deutschen und europäischen Zuwanderungspolitik. Eine Abkehr vom „Festungsdenken“ ist dringend geboten. Die bisherige...
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Early Intervention - Modellprojekt zur frühzeitigen Arbeitsmarktintegration von Asylbewerberinnen und Asylbewerbern : Ergebnisse der qualitativen Begleitforschung
Daumann, Volker; Dietz, Martin; Knapp, Barbara; Strien, … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
Office for Migration and Refugees and XENOS - a program sponsored by the European Social Fund providing labour market related … support to refugees - launched a pilot project. This project aims at a quick support with respect to a successful labour …
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Towards a common migration policy : potential impact on the EU economy
Biffl, Gudrun - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 39 (2006) 1, pp. 7-23
"There is no simple answer to the question of the potential impact of migration on the EU economy. EU migration policy is expected to meet the requirements of economic and social policy, in particular of the Lisbon Agenda, as well as national cultural, political, strategic and security...
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Tradable Immigration Quotas
Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas; Rapoport, Hillel - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2011
of international (e.g., climate change) refugees, and an extension of the US diversity lottery to a larger set of host …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861931
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Poverty Reduction in a Refugee-Hosting Economy. A Natural Experiment
Maystadt, Jean-Francois - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
The role of migration in reducing poverty in developing countries has been investigated mainly from the perspective of migrants and their relatives. This paper exploits the time and spatial variations in the way households in the region of Kagera (Tanzania) traced between 1991 and 2004 have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913796