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Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

The institution of slavery displays a puzzling historical pattern: it is found mostly at intermediate stages of … agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern of slavery in a growth model with land and labor as inputs in … into slavery, to a force behind the transition from slavery to free labor. Our model also explains several other historical …

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The Cause of the Great Inflation: Interactions between the Government and the Monetary Policymakers

Harashima, Taiji - EconWPA - 2005

The paper offers a new explanation for the cause of the Great Inflation by constructing a model that explicitly separates the roles of government and monetary policymakers. A mechanism that inflation can accelerate even if an inflation target is low is uncovered. The model solves the puzzle of...

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Slave Redemption When it Takes Time to Redeem Slaves

Rogers, Carol Ann; Swinnerton, Kenneth A - EconWPA - 2005

program can slow the flow of people into the actual state of slavery, but at the same time can increase the number of people …

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The Roads To and From Serfdom

Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

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Looking for the Workforce: the Elderly, Discouraged Workers, Minorities, and Students in the Baltic Labour Markets

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper looks at the evolution of the labour markets in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since the beginning of transition (in some respects since 1996/1998) until 2003, with a particular focus on labour force participation. How did labour supply in the Baltic countries respond to changes in...

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Family background and schooling outcomes before and during the transition - Evidence from the Baltic countries

Hazans, Mihails; Rastrigina, Olga; Trapeznikova, Ija - EconWPA - 2005

Parental education is found to have a strong positive effect on propensity to enroll in and complete secondary and tertiary education, both in Soviet times and during transition, but mother’s education effect have been weakening. A human capital gap between titular ethnicities and Russian...

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The Geographical Mobility of Mâori in New Zealand

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - EconWPA - 2005

This paper describes the geographical location and internal mobility of the Mâori ethnic group in New Zealand between 1991 and 2001. It is often suggested that Mâori are less mobile than other ethnic groups because of attachment to particular geographical locations. We compare the mobility of...

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Diversity and Forensics: Diversity in Hiring is Not Enough

Koppl, Roger - EconWPA - 2005

The current organization of forensic work may induce biases in forensic analysis (Risinger et al. 2002). Such biases may have a differential impact across groups, creating differential bias. We should reorganize forensic work to reduce differential bias. The obvious strategy of hiring ethnically...

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Changes in the Mâori Income Distribution: Evidence from the Population Census

Dixon, Sylvia; Maré, David C. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper uses census data to identify the main changes in the individual-level income distribution of working-aged Mâori between 1991 and 2001, and to analyse the effects of changes in the distribution of socio-demographic attributes and labour market activity patterns on the Mâori income...

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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...

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