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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data
Brainerd, Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700973
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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wenz, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of adult male Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703325
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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 2000: A Preliminary Report
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wenz, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent finding is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822781
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The Role of Historical Resource Constraints in Modern Gender Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis
Hazarika, Gautam; Jha, Chandan Kumar; Sarangi, Sudipta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We posit that historical resource scarcities played a role in the emergence of gender norms inimical to women that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887060
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216756
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Education Promoted Secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752231
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790517
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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167200
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Selection and the Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Young Women Revisited
Albrecht, James; van Vuuren, Aico; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884136
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The Family Gap in Career Progression
Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959637