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Escaping from hunger before WW1 : nutrition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century

Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2017

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …

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Migration as an adjustment mechanism in the crisis? : a comparison of Europe and the United States 2006-2016

Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2018

-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … market shocks. Based on fixed-effects regressions using regional panel data, we find that Europe's migratory response to … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes - i.e. an upper-bound estimate - up to …

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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …

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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? : a comparative study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012

sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …

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Are COVID fatalities in the US higher than in the EU, and if so, why?

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020

The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...

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Stalled racial progress and Japanese trade in the 1970s and 1980s

Batistich, Mary Kate; Bond, Timothy N. - 2019

late 1970s and early 1980s. These changes were concurrent with a rapid rise in import competition from Japan. We assess the …

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Entrepreneurship, education and the fourth industrial revolution in Africa

Naudé, Wim - 2017

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....

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Mapping "information economy" businesses with big data : findings for the UK

Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna; Bouet, Francois - 2014

Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of the size and characteristics of digital businesses, but this is hard to do with conventional datasets and industry codes. This paper uses innovative "big data" resources to...

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Three varieties of Africa's industrial future

Naudé, Wim - 2019

This paper shows that African economies have generally not de-industrialized, that manufacturing growth is very possible, and moreover that the contribution of manufacturing in Africa has been underestimated. As far as the future is concerned, African countries will in differing degrees...

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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 - innovation and trade - are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of the medieval world. It comes at a time when...

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