The German Economy is not only affected by the Unification of Germany but by a significant influx of immigrants from abroad and huge migration from East to West Germany around the date of unification. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) allows to disentangle those effects by decomposition of the Theil I (0)-Index of inequality. In addition, the paper offers insights in the t...

Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form “nationhood,” igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we seek to investigate the nature, role and relationshi...

The Enders and Granger (1998) unit-root test against stationary alternatives with asymmetric adjustment is applied to the extended Nelson and Plosser dataset. The test rejects the unit-root null roughly as frequently as does the ADF test. JEL Classification C32, E32 * Correspondence: Philip Rothman Department of Economics East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858 Phone: 252-328-6151 Fax: 25...

F52 is a myristoylated, alanine-rich substrate for protein kinase C. We have generated F52-deficient mice by the gene targeting technique. These mutant mice manifest severe neural tube defects that are not associated with other complex malformations, a phenotype reminiscent of common human neural tube defects. The neural tube defects observed include both exencephaly and spina bifida, and the p...

the efficiency of the institutions and the level of their effectiveness in trading among the countries are pretty new subjects that have been considered in recent studies. many researchers believe that the corruption would cause a reduction in trading among the countries. on the other hand some others assume corruption can help to facilitate the transactions process. the main purpose of this pa...

about 60 percent of the world's known reserves of oil reside in the middle east region. as such, any developments of this region are of utmost importance for the world economy. the strait of hormuz is the export conduit for 90 percent of the oil of the countries bordering the persian gulf, supplying 40 percent of world oil consumption, and is controlled by our country. since assessment of ...

This paper examines the potential costs a country faces when it fails to develop domestic arms manufacturing. I examine these costs using the historical example of Canada’s decision to not develop domestic naval shipbuilding capacity prior to World War II. Canada’s primary naval responsibility during the war was to escort convoys between the United Kingdom and North America. However its lack of...

An emulsifiable concentrate (EC) and granular (G) formulation of the entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium brunneum strain F52 (formerly Metarhizium anisopliae strain F52) were tested against unfed adults and nymphs of Ixodes scapularis Say in the laboratory. Three exposure methods; dip, surface contact, and direct spray application, and three exposure time intervals (3, 30, and 300 min) were us...

The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of UpheavalJames L. Gelvin, ed. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. $28.00. 368 pp.Revolutionary Life: Everyday the Arab SpringAsef Bayat. Cambridge, MA: Harvard £30.95/$35.00. 336 pp.The Unfinished History Iran–Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary GuardsAnnie Tracy Samuel. Cambridge: Cambridge £75.00. 302 pp.Escaping Conflict Tr...