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Sailing through history : the legacy of medieval sea trade on migrant perception and extreme right voting

Bottasso, Anna; Cerruti, Gianluca; Conti, Maurizio; … - 2024

In this study we evaluate the role that Mediterranean Medieval trade with Africa and the Middle-East still plays today … in Italian politics by shaping the attitudes towards migrants of individuals that live close to Medieval ports. Trade …

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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015

paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending … consequences of the slave trade on the "receiving" countries in the Americas. Here I distinguish between the case of Latin America …

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Religion in economic history: a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...

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The pro-trade effect of immigration on American exports during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Dunlevy, James A.; Hutchinson, William Kenneth - 2001

increased opportunity and ability of firms to expand their foreign trade, has recently been challenged by George Borjas in … precisely that evidence of a powerful pro-trade effect of international migration. Here we extend that body of evidence by … looking to history. We show that immigration, primarily from Europe between 1870 and 1910, had an important pro-trade effect …

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Optimizing incentive plan design : a case study

Levenson, Alec Robert; Zoghi, Cindy; Gibbs, Michael; … - 2011

We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...

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Equilibrium allele distribution in trading populations

Saint-Paul, Gilles (contributor) - 2006

. -- trade ; genotypes ; natural selection ; gene-culture coevolution …

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Marketmaking middlemen

Gautier, Pieter; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016

other is a market-making mode where an intermediary offers a platform for buyers and sellers to trade with each other. In …

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Long-run trends in the distribution of income and wealth

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2014

This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...

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Capital shares and income inequality : evidence from the long run

Bengtsson, Erik; Waldenström, Daniel - 2015

This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality over the long run. Using a new historical cross-country database on capital shares in 19 countries and data from the World Wealth and Income Database, we find strong long-run...

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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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