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This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that … studies the impact of trade on wages and worker training. Wages and training fell for workers employed in sectors where the …
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of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK …
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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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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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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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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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. -- trade ; genotypes ; natural selection ; gene-culture coevolution …
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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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This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...
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This paper examines the effects of the Working Families' Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples in Britain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for the role played by the tax and benefit system. Its main implications are then tested using panel data from the British...
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