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Freight Rates and Productivity Gains in British Tramp Shipping 1869-1950

Mohammed, Saif I. Shah - 2003

The standard source for pre-WWII global freight rate trends is the Isserlis British tramp shipping index. We think it … the precipitous decline in nominal freight rates before the World War I, but it also extends the series to the 1940s …. Furthermore, our new series is linked to the post-World War II era (documented by David Hummels), so that we can be more precise …

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Globalization, Convergence and History

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1995

world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence …. But is the correlation spurious? When the pre-World War I years are examined in detail, the correlation turns out to be …

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Labor Market Institutions Around the World

Freeman, Richard B. - 2007

The paper documents the large cross-country differences in labor institutions that make them a candidate explanatory factor for the divergent economic performance of countries and reviews what economists have learned about the effects of these institutions on economic outcomes. It identifies...

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Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later

O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2005

spice markets were already well integrated with those in Iberia and northern Europe, implying that Portugal could not have …

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Working under different rules

Freeman, Richard B. (ed.) - 1994

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Capital Goods Prices, Global Capital Markets and Accumulation : 1870-1950

Collins, William J. - 1999

variety of tests for world financial capital market integration ranging from the correlation of saving and investment …

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Capital Goods Prices, Global Capital Markets and Accumulation, 1870-1950

Collins, William J. - 1999

variety of tests for world financial capital market integration ranging from the correlation of saving and investment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471889

How Much Has De-Unionisation Contributed to the Rise in Male Earnings Inequality?

Freeman, Richard B. - 1991

This paper estimates the effect of changing union density on earnings differentials and inequality among male workers in the U.S. and on industry earnings differentials among OECD countries. For the U.S. the evidence indicates that the fall in union density contributed to the 1980s increase in...

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Measuring ancient inequality

Milanovic, Branko - 2007

"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...

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International differences in the business practices and productivity of firms

Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Shaw, Kathryn (contributor) - 2009

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