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Is industrialization conducive to long-run prosperity?
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015
This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … the French industrial revolution, the research establishes that regions in which industrialization was more intensive …. Nevertheless, intensive industrialization has had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by the turn of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289903
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Gender and industrialization: developments and trends in the context of developing countries
Sorgner, Alina - 2021
This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484471
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Industrialization under medieval conditions? : global development after COVID-19
Naudé, Wim - 2020
Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306216
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Relative consumption, working time, and trade unions
Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - 2013
Status considerations with respect to consumption give rise to negative externalities because individuals do not take into account that their decisions affect the relative consumption position of others. Further, status concerns create incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763210
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Spillover effects of unionisation on non-members' well-being
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - 2014
The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade unions and goes on to conduct empirical analyses using linked employer-employee data and alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387703
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Impacts of unionization on quality and productivity : regression discontinuity evidence from nursing homes
Sojourner, Aaron J.; Frandsen, Brigham R.; Town, Robert J. - 2014
This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. We find negative effects of unionization on staffing levels and no decline in care quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects....
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Unionization of retired workers in Europe
Pyka, Vinzenz; Schnabel, Claus - 2023
We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of retirees increased between 2008 and 2020. Econometric analyses indicate that on average retired...
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Tax evasion in a unionised economy
Goerke, Laszlo - 2001
In a unionised labour market, a substitution of a payroll for an income tax will not alter employment if tax obligations are fulfilled. However, if workers or firms can evade taxes this irrelevance result might no longer apply. This will especially be the case if the fine for tax evasion depends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404003
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Schooling, nation building, and industrialization : a gellnerian approach
Hauk, Esther; Ortega, Javier - 2015
and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and the masses to attend them. Schooling raises … dominant elite at the regional and country level is the same and/or the industrialization shock is sufficiently high. If …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528771
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Technology-skill complementarity in the early phase of industrialization
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2016
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452726