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 …

reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously emerging new technologies. Our unique school-enrollment and factory-employment … Industrial Revolution. -- human capital ; industrialization ; Prussian economic history …

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 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 …

cultural integration due to bilateral convergence in preferences and values. Both plausibly arise from network-induced history …

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 …

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 …

We investigate the fiscal impacts of earthquakes in Japan. In contrast with earlier papers from elsewhere which examine …

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 …

the two World Wars. This paper focuses on Japan, which as a minor participant, was not directly affected by World War I … interventions (NPIs) in determining the economic impact of the pandemic. We do so by focusing on the production and employment in … Japan was at the time). We investigate the role of NPIs in ameliorating the economic costs for the sector during the …