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Exposure to conflict, migrations and long-run education and income inequality : evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Efendic, Adnan; Kovač, Dejan; Shapiro, Jacob N. - 2022
We investigate the long-term relationship between conflict-related migration and individual socioeconomic inequality …. Looking at the post-conflict environment of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a former Yugoslav state most heavily impacted by the … histories. We find that individuals with greater exposure to conflict had systematically worse educational performance and lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163179
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Fighting terrorism : empirics on policy harmonization
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015
enforcement. The empirical evidence is based on 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Employed terrorism dynamics are … nationality. The paper is original by its contribution to the empirics of conflict resolution through decreasing cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408487
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The economics of crime : investigating the drugs-crime channel ; empirical evidence from panel data of the German states
Entorf, Horst; Winker, Peter - 2002
The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug use a main reason of criminal activities. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524914
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The economics of crime : investigating the drugs-crime channel: empirical evidence from panel data of the German states
Entorf, Horst; Winkler, Peter - 2001
The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug use a main reason of criminal activities. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446641
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The war in Europe : economic costs of the Ukrainian conflict
Bluszcz, Julia; Valente, Marica - 2019
With more than ten thousand casualties, the 2014 Ukrainian war between pro-Russian separatists and the government in the Donbass region, Ukraine's productive core, has taken a severe toll on the country. Using cross-country panel data over the period 1995-2017, this paper quantifies the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005303
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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development
Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017
spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588047
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Comparing the influence of conflict on the perceptions of rich and poor : testing the hypothesis of Acemoglu and Robinson
Yamamura, Eiji - 2014
Conflict can cause negative externalities to arise, and this can result in economic loss. Such externalities are also … this hypothesis, the present paper explores how the degree of conflict between rich and poor people is associated with … where people perceive conflict between rich and poor to be high; (2) an individual is more likely to consider the income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384375
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On the political and social consequences of economic inequality : civic engagement in Colombia
Justino, Patricia; Arjona, Ana; Cárdenas Campo, Juan Camilo - 2019
This paper investigates the impact of inequality on individual civic engagement at the community level, whether this impact persists over time, and what mechanisms may shape the relationship between inequality and civic engagement. The results show that inequality in Colombia is associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122665
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Socio-economic and demographic factors of crime in Germany: evidence from panel data of the German states
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 1998
Our study is based on the traditional Becker-Ehrlich deterrence model, but we analyse the model in the face of currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the German Laender (states) that allows us to exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297584
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Criminality, social cohesion and economic performance
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2000
The paper intends to contribute to a better understanding of the interactions between criminality, economic performance and social cohesion. We try to achieve this aim by evaluating the existing economic and criminological research and by carrying out own empirical investigation on the basis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297689