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The International Monetary Fund : 70 Years of Reinvention

Reinhart, Carmen - 2015

A sketch of the International Monetary Fund's 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over … time along multiple dimensions. This history is primarily consistent with a “demand driven” theory of institutional change … decades, banking crises and sovereign defaults became they key focus since the 1980s. Around this time, the IMF shifted from …

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Policy Consequences of Civil Society : Evidence from German-American Counter-Mobilization to Prohibition

Resch, Tobias; Schneer, Benjamin - 2022

What impact do mass civil society groups have on public policy? We study this issue by analyzing opposition to national prohibition by German-American groups and associations in the early twentieth century, before and after state-sponsored suppression of them that coincided with U.S. entry to...

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Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants

Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2023

In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because...

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US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective

Hanson, Gordon H.; Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2022

The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US immigration wave from the region suggests that it bears many similarities to the major immigration waves of the 19th and early...

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