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We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during...
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This paper considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG) with respect to trade and the exports of labor services. It concludes that i) a non-discriminatory trade policy (NDTP) is unambiguously superior to an FTA with Israel; ii) the WBG should pursue a NDTP with all its neighbors,...
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We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959646
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262427
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703686
-survey imputations and administrative and survey data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Jordan. Employing …
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In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant …
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We investigate the gender wage gap in three neglected MENA countries: Egypt (1980-2018), Jordan (2010-2016), and Turkey …, reaching in Jordan a low of -0.18. …
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. The identification comes from the regional variation in the large influx of Syrian refugees to Jordan in the wake of the …
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Jordan and Morocco amid the pandemic. Relying on the probit regressions, the empirical findings suggest that businesses that … limited availability of technologies in Jordan and Morocco for teleworking. Further, firms that expected future government …
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