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Black and white labor market outcomes in the 19th century American South

Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2007

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African-American and white inequality in the American South : evidence from the 19th Century Missouri state prison

Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2007

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African-American and white living standards in the 19th century American South : a biological comparison

Carson, Scott A. (contributor) - 2006

By using a new source of 19th century Texas state prison records, the present study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable blacks and whites in the American South between the Civil War and Reconstruction. White stature exceeded black stature. Between 1850 and 1870, black...

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Tenancy rent control and credible commitment in maintenance

Arnott, Richard; Shevyakhova, Elizaveta - 2014

Under tenancy rent control, rents are regulated within a tenancy but not between tenancies. This paper investigates the effects of tenancy rent control on housing quality and maintenance. Since the discounted revenue received over a fixed-duration tenancy depends only on the starting rent,...

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Insurance and incentives in sharecropping

Braido, Luis H. B. - 2003

share rates on input use and farm productivity. Section 2 surveys works testing different arguments raised to explain the …

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Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs

Mukherjee, Arijit - 2016

Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than nonexporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our...

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The real exchange rate in the long run : Balassa-Samuelson effects reconsidered

Bordo, Michael D.; Choudhri, Ehsan U.; Fazio, Giorgio; … - 2014

Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …

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Labor market policies and European crises

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …

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Credit constraints, quality, and export prices : theory and evidence from China

Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Li, Yao Amber - 2013

This paper examines the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports. The paper modifies Arkolakisś (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and credit constraints. The model predicts that tighter...

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Can general purpose technology theory explain economic growth? : electrical power as a case study

Ristuccia, Cristiano Andrea; Solomou, Solomos - 2014

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

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