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The geography of trade and technology shocks in the United States

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...

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Recent flattening in the higher education wage premium : polarization, skill downgrading, or both?

Valletta, Robert G. - 2016

Wage gaps between workers with a college or graduate degree and those with only a high school degree rose rapidly in the United States during the 1980s. Since then, the rate of growth in these wage gaps has progressively slowed, and though the gaps remain large, they were essentially unchanged...

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Workplaces in the primary economy and wage pressure in the secondary labor market

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2002

This paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium model in which firms in the primary economy have to create workplaces prior to production and product market competition. For this, we introduce the endogenous sunk cost approach with two-stage decisions of firms from IO in the macro-labor...

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Reassessing the standard of living in the Soviet Union : an analysis using archival and anthropometric data

Brainerd, Elizabeth (contributor) - 2006

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade … -- sometimes rapidly -- from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout … across the Soviet Union to reassess the standard of living in the USSR using these alternative measures of well-being. In the …

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Evolution of employment protection legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic states, 1985 - 2009

Muravyev, Alexander - 2010

former USSR - the CIS and Baltic states - over 25 years from 1985 to 2009. We use the OECD methodology (OECD EPL, version II … the former USSR with respect to firing costs were extremely rigid and were subsequently liberalized by the 15 successor … decades. By now, the ex-USSR states as a group do not differ that much from the EU-15 and OECD countries in terms of the …

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

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Migration in the Soviet successor states

Locher, Lilo - 2002

This paper analyzes the migration behavior of ethnic groups in the former Soviet Union (FSU) from 1989 to 1999. The two main migration movements have been return migration of ethnic groups to their titular nation and migration of all ethnic groups to the Russian Federation. Using factor...

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Double-edged sword: persistent effects of communism on life satisfaction

Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2021

Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...

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From pink-collar to lab coat: cultural persistence and diffusion of socialist gender norms

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2020

The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 led to a massive migration wave from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to Israel. We document the persistence and transmission of the Soviet unconventional gender norms, both vertically across generations of immigrants, and horizontally through neighborhood and...

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Stalin and the origins of mistrust

Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga; Otrachshenko, Vladimir - 2019

We show that current differences in trust levels within former Soviet Union countries can be traced back to the system of forced prison labor during Stalin's rule, which was marked by high incarceration rates, repression, and harsh punishments. We argue that those exposed to forced labor camps...

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