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Immigration : America's nineteenth century "law and order problem"?
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010
Past studies of the empirical relationship between immigration and crime during the first major wave of immigration have focused on violent crime in cities and have relied on data with serious limitations regarding nativity information. We analyze administrative data from Pennsylvania prisons,...
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To the New World and Back Again : Return Migrants in the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran - 2016
We compile large datasets from Norwegian and US historical censuses to study return migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913). Return migrants were somewhat negatively selected from the migrant pool: Norwegian immigrants who returned to Norway held slightly lower-paid occupations...
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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, technological, cultural, and economic outcomes, researchers have been unable to directly assess these predictions because of an absence of data on colonial European settlement. In...
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A Nation of Immigrants : Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran - 2012
During the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), the US maintained an open border, absorbing 30 million European immigrants. Prior cross-sectional work on this era finds that immigrants initially held lower-paid occupations than natives but experienced rapid convergence over time. In...
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Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463345
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History without Evidence : Latin American Inequality since 1491
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463881
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A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Critical Transitions
Alston, Lee J. - 2016
Critical transitions for a country are historical periods when the powerful organizations in a country shift from one set of beliefs about how institutions (the formal and informal rules of the game) will affect outcomes to a new set of beliefs. Critical transitions can lead a country toward...
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Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?
Tella, Rafael Di - 2007
corruption, which is more widespread in poor countries, reduces more the electoral appeal of capitalism than that of socialism …
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State Versus Private Ownership
Shleifer, Andrei - 1998
costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the dynamic vitality' of free … enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s and 1940s failed to see the dangers of socialism in part because they focused on … the role of prices under socialism and capitalism and ignored the enormous importance of ownership as the source of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472146
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Pervasive Shortages Under Socialism
Shleifer, Andrei - 1991
We present a new theory of pervasive shortages under socialism, based on the assumption that the planners are self … suggests that market socialism is bound to fail even without computational complexities facing the planners …
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