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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913-1939

Holmlund, Bertil - 2012 - This version: April 18, 2012

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...

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How deep are the roots of economic development?

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2012

analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on …

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The nature of risk preferences : evidence from insurance choices

Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2012

We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard …

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Covid-19 full-dose vaccination across uninsured populations : evidence across counties in the United States

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2022

study is on determining whether a lack of health insurance significantly impacted vaccination propensities. If it is indeed … the case that a lack of health insurance mattered, this would be informative for policymakers since they tried to address … vaccines were made available free of cost to the public in the United States, irrespective of their insurance status. A policy …

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Financial institutions and money laundering : a threatening relationship?

Lawlor-Forsyth, Erin; Gallant, Mary Michelle - In: Journal of banking regulation 19 (2018) 2, pp. 131-148

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Heterogeneity of business models and banking sector resilience

Marques, Bernardo P.; Alves, Carlos - In: Journal of banking regulation 25 (2024) 3, pp. 256-271

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Learning from the past : trends in executive compensation over the twentieth century

Frydman, Carola (contributor) - 2008

In recent years, a large academic debate has tried to explain the rapid rise in CEO pay experienced over the past three decades. In this article, I review the main proposed theories, which span views of compensation as the result of a competitive labor market for executives to theories based on...

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The trend of BMI values by centiles of US adults, birth cohorts 1882 - 1986

Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - 2010

Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...

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A quantile approach to the relationship between body mass, wealth, and inequality

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds that 19th century US black and white BMIs were distributed symmetrically; neither wasting nor obesity was common. Nineteenth century BMI values were also greater for blacks than...

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Health during industrialization : evidence from the 19th century Pennsylvania state prison system

Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2007

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