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Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management. We cover the institution's history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasiexperimental estimates suggest that...

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European Recessions and Native American Conflict

Angel, Marco del; Hess, Gregory D.; Weidenmier, Marc D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate the extent to which conflicts between Native American tribes and U.S. Army troops were caused by poor economic conditions in Europe from 1869 to 1890. We hypothesize that contractions in economic activity pushed many Europeans to move to the western United States in search of...

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International Transactions : Real Trade and Factor Flows between 1700 and 1870

Keller, Wolfgang - 2020

Western Europe and the European colonies of North America intensified at the same time these regions experienced the initial …

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Immigrant Group Size and Political Mobilization : Evidence from European Migration to the United States

Shertzer, Allison - 2013

Immigration to democratic nations generates new groups of potential voters. This paper investigates how the electorate share of immigrant groups influences their likelihood of becoming politically mobilized, focusing on the mechanism of coalition formation with the Democratic Party. Using newly...

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The European Origins of Economic Development

Easterly, William - 2012

Although a large literature argues that European settlement outside of Europe shaped institutional, educational … absence of data on colonial European settlement. In this paper, we construct a new database on the European share of the … and uniformly positive relationship between colonial European settlement and development, (2) a stronger relationship …

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Closing the Productivity Gap with the US : Causes and Consequences of the Productivity Program in Western Europe

Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

promoted management training trips for European managers at US firms. Through the analysis of reports compiled by UK, France … increase thanks to the program. The fact that European businesses were not forced to adopt the American management model, but …

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