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Publication date: 8 March 2013

Marcus Marktanner and Luc Noiset

The purpose of this paper is to critique recent findings that democratic practices are positively related to homicide rates.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to critique recent findings that democratic practices are positively related to homicide rates.

Design/methodology/approach

Economic rational choice model supported by empirical evidence.

Findings

It was found that higher homicide rates are only characteristic of democracies that fail to respond to the median voter's call for equitable social development.

Originality/value

The paper makes an original distinction between conservative and social democracies, operationalizes this distinction theoretically and empirically, and shows that higher homicide rates are a phenomenon of conservative, not social, democracies.

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International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 40 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0306-8293

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Publication date: 2 February 2015

Marcus Marktanner, Edward Mienie and Luc Noiset

– The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect of armed conflict on the vulnerability to natural hazards.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect of armed conflict on the vulnerability to natural hazards.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors employ panel estimates of disaster deaths on a lagged indicator of the presence of armed conflict.

Findings

Disaster deaths following armed conflict are on average 40 percent higher compared to disasters that are chronologically detached from armed conflict events; a legacy of armed conflict accounts for roughly 14 percent of the approximately five million disaster deaths between 1961 and 2010.

Practical implications

A global estimate of the relationship between armed conflict and disaster vulnerability can help disaster management planners identify policy priorities associated with disaster prevention and management.

Originality/value

The analysis reinforces the findings in previous qualitative studies of a causal link between armed conflict and increased disaster vulnerability and provides a quantitative estimate of the average magnitude of this relationship.

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Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 24 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0965-3562

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Publication date: 9 May 2016

Xudong Chen, Yingge Lin and Luc P Noiset

The scholarly literature that examines the economic assimilation of migrant families has focussed on the educational and economic achievements of the children of international…

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Purpose

The scholarly literature that examines the economic assimilation of migrant families has focussed on the educational and economic achievements of the children of international migrants relative to the children of native born parents. Lower relative incomes of the children of immigrants might be attributable to discrimination, while higher relative incomes could be attributable to ambitious parents who produce more ambitious children. These potential effects have been difficult to disentangle. The purpose of this paper is to control for discrimination by examining internal migration in Honduras, allowing us to isolate evidence for or against the “ambition” effect.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper uses the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to ask if the children of migrants are similar or different than their parents in their attitudes toward work and economic advancement.

Findings

This study finds that migrants are relatively hard workers in the sense that they experience relatively high marginal effects on earnings from improved socio-economic characteristics, such as years of schooling. The study also finds that these migrants do not pass on this hard-work ethic to their children, who experience much smaller marginal effects from increased years of schooling and other socio-economic characteristics.

Originality/value

This study demonstrates that the children of migrants do not necessarily inherit the ambitious work ethic characteristic of their migrant parents. This result has important implications for studies that examine the assimilation and economic progress of migrant families, particularly those studies that use second-generation earnings as a measure of assimilation and economic progress.

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International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 43 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0306-8293

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