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This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, highlighting its persistent effect on economic prosperity, the study establishes that while the...
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The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
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and residences and an exclusively residential suburban area. The paper demonstrates that both segregation and regional … income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by …-skilled workers. A larger productivity gap does not affect segregation, but causes higher income inequality and lower relative …
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, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town … denomination, whereas towns are less segregated. Yet, we find relatively lower levels of segregation by literacy. Regression …
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social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial …
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formal sector a decade later, are subject to more severe ethnic segregation on the job and display less linguistic …
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sexist) majority group of customers. There exists a Nash equilibrium with full segregation in which a low-price firm serves …
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Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is …
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communities in 2003, we find substantial evidence for income sorting. -- tax competition ; fiscal federalism ; income segregation …
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ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we contribute to this debate by analyzing ethnic segregation before … and after the reform. We discuss drawbacks of commonly used segregation indices and their interpretation as well as … causality issues. Although there is an increase in segregation over the time period studied, our results show that segregation …
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