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The Early Modern Great Divergence: Wages, Prices and Economic Development in Europe and Asia, 1500-1800

Broadberry, Stephen N; Gupta, Bishnupriya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

1500 and 1800 look similar to the stagnating southern, central and eastern parts of Europe rather than the developing … northwestern parts. In the advanced parts of India and China, grain wages were comparable to those in northwestern Europe, but … wages of northwestern Europe were not simply a monetary phenomenon, but reflected high productivity in the tradable sector …

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Child Care and Mothers' Lifetime Earnings: Some European Contrasts

Davies, Hugh; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

Patterns of female employment participation are compared in a variety of European countries with differing levels of child care provision. The earnings forgone over a lifetime by a woman bearing children (compared with the earnings of her childless counterpart) are simulated for four countries,...

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Shareholder Value Creation in European M&As

Campa, José Manuel; Hernando, Ignacio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper looks at the value generated to shareholders by the announcement of mergers and acquisitions involving firms in the European Union over the period 1998-2000. Cumulative abnormal shareholder returns due to the announcement of a merger reflect a revision of the expected value resulting...

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