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The Rise and Decline of European Parliaments, 1188-1789
Bosker, Maarten; Buringh, Eltjo; Zanden, Jan Luiten Van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
innovation. In the early-modern period parliaments declined in influence in southern and central Europe and gained in importance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530357
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From Baghdad to London: The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Europe and the Arab World, 800-1800
Bosker, Maarten; Buringh, Eltjo; Zanden, Jan Luiten Van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
On the basis of a large (new) dataset of cities in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East in the millennium between … from Iraq (or more generally the Arab world) to Western Europe and to the shores of the Atlantic (during the 17th and 18th …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504754
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Explaining Changes in the Union Mark-up for Male Manual Workers in Great Britain, 1953-83
Beenstock, Michael; Whitbread, Chris - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
Layard, Metcalf and Nickell have formed annual estimates of the union mark-up for unskilled males in the United Kingdom manufacturing sector over the period 1951-1983. We critically assess their estimates as an index of union power and propose a number of hypotheses that determine the union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005281366
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Corporate Efficiency in Europe
Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evzen; Shamshur, Anastasiya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213309
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Income inequality, decentralisation and regional development in Western Europe
Pike, Andy J; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tomaney, John; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Western Europe has an effect on within regional interpersonal inequality. Second, whether this potential relationship is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322504
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385763
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Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2008
Ponticelli, Jacopo; Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Does fiscal consolidation lead to social unrest? Using cross-country evidence for the period 1919 to 2008, we examine the extent to which societies become unstable after budget cuts. The results show a clear correlation between fiscal retrenchment and instability. We test if the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201119
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Europe’s Great Depression: Coordination Failure after the First World War
Wolf, Nikolaus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
of the great depression in Europe and the delay of recovery as a failure to coordinate economic policies. Europe could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466327
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Work and Leisure in the US and Europe: Why So Different?
Alesina, Alberto F; Glaeser, Edward L; Sacerdote, Bruce - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
the US and Europe. Another popular view is that these differences are explained by long-standing European ‘culture’, but … the US and Europe. These policies do not seem to have increased employment, but they may have had a more society …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662089
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Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Social Welfare in Europe
Ermisch, John F; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also … assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662094