quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel … estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …

This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941 …

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

diversity in the workforce by industrial sector. This result suggests that religious diversity did not generate labor market …

economic prosperity, the study establishes that while the adoption of industrial technology was initially conducive to economic … that the characteristics that permitted the onset of industrialization, rather than the adoption of industrial technology …

costs of ethnic diversity vary with the political environment, and that in high-cost environments firms are forced to adopt …

This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline … of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the … intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the production process. In light of the growing significance of skilled labor for …

firms experienced competitive shocks as a function of firm location and their low-wage employment share. We find that … minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from labor to capital, reduce employment growth and accelerate total … factor productivity growth–particularly among the less productive firms under private Chinese or foreign ownership, but not …

costs of ethnic diversity vary with the political environment, and that in high-cost environments firms are forced to adopt …