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Technology, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy
Davis, Donald R. - 1996
the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been … identified as a key reason for the rising US wage inequality, while labor market rigidities are often cited as a key reason for … European unemployment. This paper seeks to provide a unified account of these major factor market developments. It models the …
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Offshoring and Labor Markets
Hummels, David - 2016
firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456633
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Populism and the Economics of Globalization
Rodrik, Dani - 2017
Populism may seem like it has come out of nowhere, but it has been on the rise for a while. I argue that economic history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would produce a political backlash. While the backlash may have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455123
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Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2020
This paper provides a simple conceptual framework that captures how different perceptions, attitudes, and biases about immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution. Through the lens of this framework, we review the empirical literature on the effects of racial diversity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479144
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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2009
GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...
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The Diffusion of Development
Spolaore, Enrico - 2006
This paper studies the barriers to the diffusion of development across countries over the very long-run. We find that genetic distance, a measure associated with the amount of time elapsed since two populations' last common ancestors, bears a statistically and economically significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466502
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Who Wins the Olympic Games : Economic Development and Medal Totals
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2000
medals? Why does China win 6% of the medals even though it has 1/5 of the world's population? We consider the role of … population and economic development in determining medal totals from 1960-1996. We also provide out of sample predictions for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470733
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New Sources and New Techniques for the Study of Secular Trends in Nutritional Status, Health, Mortality, and the Process of Aging
Fogel, Robert William - 1993
The aim of this paper is to describe the full dimensions of a new and rapidly growing research program that uses new data sources on food consumption, anthropometric measures, genealogies, and life-cycle histories to shed light on secular trends in nutritional status, health, mortality, and the...
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The Conquest of High Mortality and Hunger in Europe and America : Timing and Mechanisms
Fogel, Robert William - 1990
The modern secular decline in mortality in Western Europe did not begin until the 1780s and the first wave of improvement was over by 1840. The elimination of famines and of crisis mortality played only a secondary role during the first wave of the decline and virtually none thereafter....
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The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves : Reconciling Conflicting Results
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
composition in subsamples of the Current Population Survey extracts. This compositional change is specific to Miami, unrelated to … the Boatlift, and arises from selecting small subsamples of workers. We also show that conflicting findings on the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455248