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From 1770 to 1914, the British Government collected weekly price and quantity data for all types of grain traded in many market towns; these ‘Corn Returns’ were published in the London Gazette. We computerised the data published 1770-1864, totalling around 6 million data points. Here we...
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We estimate the effect of imported machines on the wages of machine operators utilizing Hungarian linked employer … the worker. We find that workers exposed to imported machines earn about 8 percent higher wages than other machine …
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This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...
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This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …
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We investigate the geographical distribution of economic activity and wages in a general equilibrium model with many … region’s industry share, whereas accessibility better explains a region’s wage. The correlation between equilibrium wages and …
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and trends in wellbeing. If the rise in wages that followed the Black Death enticed female servants to delay marriage, it …
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Two literatures exist concerning cross-border merger activity’s impact on domestic wages: one focusing on spillover …) unionization rates and under high (low) degrees of relatedness. Employing US firm-level panel data on wages combined with industry … cross-border merger activity generate positive spillovers to wages, but are more likely to generate firm-level wage …
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layer is very positively (negatively) correlated with value added. We then explore the changes in the wages and number of … expand substantially add layers and pay lower average wages in all pre-existing layers. In contrast, firms that expand little … and do not reorganize pay higher average wages in all pre-existing layers. …
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microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, the results show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and … regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare …
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insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …
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