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Occupational choice and the spirit of capitalism

Doepke, Matthias (contributor); … - 2007

industrialization transforms the economic landscape. …

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For want of a cup: the rise of tea in England and the impact of water quality on mortality

Antman, Francisca M. - 2022

This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication...

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Women workers in essential British metal and chemical industries during the Second World War and the immediate post-war years

Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, Elizabeth J. - 2023

Group 1 metal and chemical industries formed the essential suppliers of British war materials during WW2. Their industrial sectors covered metal manufacture, general and electrical engineering, vehicle production, aircraft production, shipbuilding, metal goods, chemicals and explosives, and...

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Wages, employment, and capital in capitalist and worker-owned firms

Pencavel, John H. (contributor); … - 2006

matched employer-worker panel data set from Italy, the market economy with the greatest incidence of worker-owned and worker …, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise …

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Inflation expectations and corporate borrowing decisions : new causal evidence

Ropele, Tiziano; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Coibion, Olivier - 2022

We match survey data of Italian firms that includes a repeated experiment in which information about inflation is randomly provided to firms over time with detailed credit data that covers the borrowing decisions of firms. This allows us to study how exogenous variation in inflation expectations...

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What are the factors behind pay settlements? : evidence from Spanish and British data

Bayo-Moriones, Alberto (contributor); … - 2008

This article presents a study of the determinants of pay settlements in a sample of Spanish and British establishments. We find that variables such as establishment size and age, foreign ownership, labour costs, the existence of internal labour markets, a strategic approach to human resource...

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Union threat and non-union employment : a natural experiment on the use of temporary employment in British firms

Salvatori, Andrea - 2011

This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the effect of the threat of unionisation on the use of a predominantly non-union type of employment, i.e. temporary employment. The identification strategy exploits an exogenous variation in union threat induced in the UK by new legislation...

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Minimum wages and firm profitability

Draca, Mirko (contributor); Machin, Stephen (contributor); … - 2006

Although there is a large literature on the economic effects of minimum wages on labour market outcomes (especially employment), there is hardly any evidence on their impact on firm performance. This is surprising: minimum wages appear to have a significant impact on wages, but only a limited...

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Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries

Callan, Tim (contributor); Smeeding, Timothy M. (contributor) - 2008

provide comparable results for seven European countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK …

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Where do the brainy Italians go?

Constant, Amelie (contributor); D'Agosto, Elena (contributor) - 2008

researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US …. Ceteris paribus, both push and pull factors are important. While having a Ph.D. from outside Italy predicts the UK choice …, having extra working experience from outside Italy predicts migration to other EU countries. Those who stay abroad …

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