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Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution Between 1981 and 2009
Foellmi, Reto; Martínez, Isabel Z. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We study the recent evolution of top incomes in Switzerland, analyzing both social security data on labor incomes and ….01 percent’s share even doubled, putting Switzerland similar to European countries for the top 1 percent group but closer to the … suggests that labor incomes have become more important among top income earners in Switzerland. This is in line with findings …
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The Evolution of Markets and the Revolution of Industry: A Quantitative Model of England's Development, 1300-2000
Desmet, Klaus; Parente, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper argues that an economy's transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth requires markets to reach a critical size, and competition to reach a critical level of intensity. By allowing an economy to produce a greater variety of goods, a larger market makes goods more...
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Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?
Alesina, Alberto F; Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
The answer to the question posed in the title is ‘yes’. Using a total of 128,106 answers to a survey question about ‘happiness’, we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the US. There are two potential explanations....
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A Model of UK Emigration, 1870-1913
Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
This paper develops a simple time-series model of emigration and applies it to data for emigration from the UK between 1870 and 1913. The model is derived from a microeconomic analysis of the migration decision and provides a specific functional form and dynamic structure. It encompasses many of...
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The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We study the determinants of 19th century mass migration with special attention to the role of institutional factors beside standard economic fundamentals. We find that economic forces associated with income and demographic differentials had a major role in the determination of this historical...
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Around the European Periphery 1870-1913: Globalization, Schooling and Growth
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
On average, the poor European periphery converged on the rich industrial core in the four or five decades prior to World War I. Some, like the three Scandinavian economies, used industrialization to achieve a spectacular convergence on the leaders, especially in real wages and living standards....
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A Quantative Analysis of Swedish Fertility Dynamics: 1751-1990
Eckstein, Zvi; Mira, Pedro Solbes; Wolpin, Kenneth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
This paper analyses the relationship between age-specific fertility, mortality and real wages in Sweden during the demographic transition. We take an overlapping generation’s model of life cycle fertility and fit it to actual Swedish time-series data over the past two and a half centuries. The...
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Migration as Disaster Relief: Lessons from the Great Irish Famine
O'Gráda, Cormac; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
Mass emigration was one key feature of the Great Irish Famine which distinguishes it from today’s famines. By bringing famine victims to overseas food supplies, it undoubtedly saved many lives. Poverty traps prevented those most in need from availing of this form of relief, however....
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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses--1816, 1849,...
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Knocking on Heaven’s Door? Protestantism and Suicide
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man’s impact on God’s grace, and the possibility of confessing sins. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional...
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