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The World Technology Frontier
Caselli, Francesco; Coleman, Wilbur John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
substitutes. We find that there is a skill biasin cross-country technology differences. Higher-income countries use skilled … labormore efficiently than lower-income countries, while they use unskilled labor relativelyand, possibly, absolutely less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305071
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Earnings Inequality and Coordination Costs: Evidence from U.S. Law Firms
Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas N. - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2009
Earnings inequality has increased substantially since the 1970s. Using evidence changes from con…dential Census data on U.S. law offices on lawyers'organization and earnings, we study the extent to which the mechanism suggested by Lucas (1978) and Rosen (1982), a scale of operations effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008860707
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Housing Outcomes: An Assessment of Long-Term Trends
Orr, James A.; Peach, Richard W. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999
of the household’s income, andthe household’s assessment of the quality of its neighborhoodand of its local public … services. In this paper, weexamine trends in housing outcomes over the past twodecades for income quintiles, controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870043
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A Look at Real Housing Prices and Incomes: Some Implications for Housing Affordability and Quality
Gyourko, Joseph E.; Tracy, Joseph - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
affordability forhouseholds at the bottom of the income distribution. Real house prices at the lower end of the price distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870045
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Banks’ Payments-Driven Revenues
Radecki, Lawrence J. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999
now furnish material onsources of noninterest income and the amounts earned thatis much more detailed than the information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870063
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National and Regional Factors in the New York Metropolitan Economy
MacCarthy, Jonathan; Steindel, Charles - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997
This paper explores the connections betweenbroad economic indicators in the New Yorkmetropolitan region and their national counterparts.It compares the performance of theregion in recent years with that of the nation and assessesthe importance of national and local developments for thearea’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870273
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Bairoch Revisited. Tariff Structure and Growth in the Late 19th Century
Tena-Junguito, Antonio - Universidad Carlos III <Madrid> / Departamento de Economía; … - 2009
results show that income, factor endowment, and policy independence are important to explain regional asymmetries between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870482
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Regional Income Dispersion and Market Potential in the Late Nineteenth Century Hapsburg Empire
Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
for its 22 major regions. The paper argues that regional income differentials were significantly larger, that intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870545
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The Triumph and Denouement of the British Fiscal State: Taxation For the Wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815
O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
revenues. However, specific tax rates (which at that time were the norm) implied that the state’s real income would fall in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870561
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Trade, Convergence and Globalisation: the dynamics of change in the international income distribution, 1950-1998
Epstein, Philip; Howlett, Peter; Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
reach the levels of income enjoyed by the richest nations.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870584