Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and-through input-output linkages and other general …

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 …

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

This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database … unique source for micro-regional empirical research in economic history, enabling analyses of the importance of such factors … iPEHD is to provide the data in a digitized and structured way. -- economic history ; Prussia ; 19th century ; database …

institutions. We find that landownership concentration, a proxy for the institution of serf labor, has a negative effect on … thereof. -- land concentration ; institutions ; serfdom ; education ; Prussian economic history …

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the new EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA), the biggest bilateral deal … that both the EU and Japan have concluded so far. It employs a generalized variant of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model … reductions in the costs of NTBs. This approach yields long-run welfare effects for Japan of about 18 bn. USD per year (0.31% of …

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures' different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan's opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …