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Does E-Verify Discriminate against Hispanic Citizens?
(American University of Sharjah, 2015)
The ratcheting up of immigration enforcement has resulted in a number of unintended consequences featured in the news, such as family separations. We focus on, yet, another potentially unintended consequence -namely the ...
Virtual Trade and Growth
(American University of Sharjah, 2015-01-29)
The purpose of this paper is to propose a model where trade has a direct and positive impact on growth rate of two trading nations beyond the level effect. We use the idea of virtual trade in intermediates induced by non- ...
Energy Use and Economic Growth in Jordan
(American University of Sharjah, 2015)
The purpose of this research is to investigate the causal relation between energy use and economic growth in one of the MENA countries, Jordan using annual data over the period 1975-2007. The methodology used in this study ...
The Causal Relation between Savings and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis
(American University of Sharjah, 2015)
This paper examines the causal relation between savings and economic growth for Morocco and Tunisia using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration. The results support bidirectional causality between ...
Workforce localization and HRM practices in the Gulf countries: a literature review
(European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM), 2015-04)
As members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates pursue localization as a government policy aimed at increasing the participation of ...
Governance and Short Sales
(American University of Sharjah, 2015)
This paper investigates the relationship between short sales and governance. We argue that short sales are reversely linked to the overall level of corporate governance of a firm and that sellers react contemporaneously ...
Has the Financial Crisis had an Adverse Effect on Bank Competition?
(American University of Sharjah, 2015-01-25)
This article investigates whether the recent financial crisis has had any adverse impact on bank competition for 24 emerging and 25 advanced countries with large and small-size banks over the sample period 2001-2010. The ...
A Market Efficiency Comparison of Islamic and Non-Islamic Stock Indices
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2015)
This article examines the martingale difference hypothesis (MDH) and the random walk hypothesis (RWH) for nine conventional and nine Islamic stock indices: Asia-Pacific, Canadian, Developed Country, Emerging, European, ...