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abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in … overseas countries, like the United States, and falling inequality in most of Europe. Falling unskilled labor scarcity and …
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the 1790s and later under Napoleon invaded and controlled large parts of Europe. Together with invasion came various …
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in the U.S. than in Europe. In 1990 White Americans and Europeans in rich areas had similar overall life expectancy … by 2036. European life expectancy also stalled after 2014. Still, the comparison with Europe suggests that mortality …
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This paper introduces a new internationally comparable data set that permits an empirical investigation of the effects of patent law on innovation. The data have been constructed from the catalogues of two 19th century world fairs: the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, 1851, and the...
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