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Environmental Feedbacks and Optimal Taxation in Oligopoly

Carraro, Carlo; Soubeyran, Antoine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

environment only because its degradation affects the industry's economic performance. The environment does not enter directly …

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Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?

Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …

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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle

Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how …

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Does Trade Cause Capital to Flow? Evidence from Historical Rainfalls

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, Alex - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Estimating the effect of trade on capital flows is difficult given the inherent identification problem. We use fluctuations in rainfall to capture the exogenous variation in trade between Germany, France, the U.K., and the Ottoman Empire during 1859-1913. The provisionistic policy of the Ottoman...

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The 'Emulator Effect' of the Uruguay Round on US Regionalism

Fugazza, Marco; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Using a detailed data set at the tariff line level, we find an emulator effect of multilateralism on subsequent regional trade agreements involving the US. We exploit the variation in the frequency with which the US has granted immediate duty free access (IDA) to its Free Trade Area partners...

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Trade, Migration and Convergence: An Historical Perspective

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Theory is ambiguous as to how globalization influences the relative performances of rich and poor countries. This paper surveys some recent literature on the historical links between international commodity and factor market integration and convergence. Focusing on the late nineteenth century, a...

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India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule: New Ideas, New Evidence

Clingingsmith, David; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market. Other local industries also suffered some decline, and India underwent secular...

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Market Integration and Economic Development: A Long-Run Comparison

Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol Hua - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

How much of China’s recent economic performance can be attributed to market-oriented reforms introduced in the last two decades? A long-run perspective may be important for understanding the process of economic development occurring today. This Paper compares the integration of rice markets in...

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Democracy and Protectionism

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Does democracy encourage free trade? It depends. Broadening the franchise involves transferring power from non-elected elites to the wider population, most of whom will be workers. The Hecksher-Ohlin-Stolper-Samuelson logic says that democratization should lead to more liberal trade policies in...

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Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution

Clark, Gregory; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

For two decades, the consensus explanation of the British Industrial Revolution has placed technological change and the supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade...

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