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The Impact of Introducing International Unskilled Labor on the Labor Market of Developed Countries: Illustrated by the Relationships of Implementation of OECD Countries’ Low Skilled Working Permit Policies and the Countries’ Unemployment Rate
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This study focuses on the relationship between the OECD countries’ labor markets’ performance and the Working Holiday Visa policy, which provides young people with a temporary work permit. The program has been adopted by ...
To Defend or Not to Defend: Understanding How States View Strong and Weak Reputations
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why do states back down during crises despite the risk of harming their reputation for resolve? The existing literature contends that leaders believe, perhaps more than they should, that cultivating a strong reputation for ...
Overcoming the Hesitations of History: An Analysis of U.S.-India Ties
(Georgetown University, 2020)
U.S.-India relations have not progressed as far or as fast as advocates have hoped. There is little doubt as to India’s strategic importance to the United States, as well as the critical role it will undoubtedly play on ...
Legitimacy and the Maritime Border: China's Legitimation Strategy in the South China Sea
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Legitimacy, in constructivist international relations theory, is an asymmetric concept that can restrain or embolden rising powers. Sticking to foreign policy that is seen as illegitimate in the eyes of established norms ...
Evaluation of the Effects of a Simulation-Based Training Program on Situation Awareness in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Situation awareness is a non-technical skill that has major implications in human behavior. Faults in situation awareness can increase chances for error to occur. In the field of nurse anesthesia, this is particularly ...
Essays in Law and Economics
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In this dissertation, I empirically analyze topics at the intersection of law and economics. In the first chapter, Michael Packard and I calculate the crime effects attributable to the Mariel Boatlift, the 1980 Cuban refugee ...
Instant Messaging in Korean Families: Creating Family through the Interplay of Photos, Videos, and Text
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Extending previous research on family interaction (e.g., Tannen, Kendall, and Gordon 2007; Gordon 2009) and online multimodal discourse (e.g., Gordon forthcoming), I use interactional sociolinguistics to analyze instant ...
How Ceasefires Contribute to the Proliferation of Armed Groups
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has lasted over 25 years and saw 140 armed groups at its height. Conversely, other conflicts, such as the one in Nigeria, have never seen high levels of proliferation ...
Knitting As Politics: How One Traditionally Non-Political Community Engages With Political Discourse
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This discursive linguistic study examines how indie yarn dyers in a knitting community on Instagram position themselves in relation to a political ban. In June of 2019, a popular knitting pattern website, Ravelry, released ...