difference-in-differences model that compares employment rates across education type and age. An initial employment advantage of …

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 …

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function-physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … studies the role of the Catholic Church in European economic history since the medieval period. Taking advantage of newly … history. Third, many socioeconomic factors matter in the historical development of religions. …

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 …

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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 …

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 …