Migration and post-conflict reconstruction: The effect of returning refugees on export performance in the former Yugoslavia

a column by Dany Bahar, Andreas Hauptmann, Cem Özgüzel and Hillel Rapoport for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

The economic debate on immigration has focused on migration’s short-term labour market and fiscal effects. Less attention has been given to the long-run economic opportunities linked to migration.

This column uses the case of refugees returning to the former Yugoslavia from Germany after the end of the Yugoslav wars to explore the role that returning migrants play in shaping the industrial development of their home country. The findings support the idea that migrants are drivers of knowhow and technology transfers between countries.

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Creating feminism in the shadow of male heroes: That other story of 1989

an article by Zsófia Lóránd published in Eurozine


Tamás Király, Red star dress, 1987. Photo by Jonathan Csaba Almási. via Faktografia.com

The widespread fear from the label of radical feminism has blurred the interpretation of pre-1989 women’s movements. A generational clash further complicates the process of remembrance. The superficiality of post-feminism and gender mainstreaming threatens to erase the struggles of yet another feminist generation.

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