The world is increasingly interconnected with each other in terms of goods, money, and labor (international migration). In view of the importance of international migration in recent years, the purpose of this paper is to analyze, somewhat rigorously, the economic impact of migration on sending...

Typically, a small and open economy trades goods at given worl prices. Here, we present a model of a very open small economy, where capital and labor are internationally mobile, too. When targeting mobile capital ("FDI"), the economy's government attracts not only mobile capital but mobile...

This paper analyses the welfare implication for a developing country of using union legalisation as a policy instrument to attract inwards foreign direct investment. While its presence may discourage a foreign multinational (MNE) from locating in the host country, unionisation is an important...

Changes in organizational structure, globalization and a different nature of work are just a few factors that had influenced the relationship between employer and employees and the content of psychological contracts. Because of their need for flexibility and higher adaptability to the actual...

The authors argue that the academic literature, both qualitative and quantitative, has mislabeled most episodes of large-scale violence in Africa as civil war; these episodes better fit their concept of regional war complexes. The paper seeks to highlight the fundamental flaws in the conception...

The present transition in Guinea-Bissau is often described as an internal affair, triggered off by “bad government”, i. e. decades of corruption, violent repression of opposition, and other human rights violations, which led to increasing conflicts among the power elite of the deposed...

Quantitative studies of civil war have focused either on war's onset, or its termination, producing important insights into these end points of the process. The authors complement these studies by studying how much war we are likely to observe in any given period. To answer this question, they...

The authors combine an empirical model of external intervention, with a theoretical model of civil war duration. Their empirical model of intervention allows them to analyze civil war duration, using"expected"rather than"actual"external intervention as an explanatory variable in the duration...

Some theorists of ethnic conflict argue that the physical separation of warring ethnic groups may be the only possible solution to civil war. Without territorial partition and (if needed) forced population movements, they argue, ethnic war cannot end and genocide is likely. Other scholars have...