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Hours and wages in the depression : British engineering, 1926-1938
Hart, Robert A. - 2000
On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325987
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The rise and fall of the "Normalarbeitsverhältnis" in Germany
Pierenkemper, Toni - 2009
anachronistic and obsolete. -- Economic history ; standard employment ; Germany …The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the … consolidation of the welfare state, this type of employment was reinforced in Germany in the 20th century and finally developed into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825120
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Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland
Pierenkemper, Toni; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2010
The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany … historical roots of the so-called 'standard employment contract' in Germany are investigated. We find that during the pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968435
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Employer preferences and social policy : business and the development of job security regulations in Germany since World War I
Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - 2010
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from … business weakness in the aftermath of both World Wars. -- Job security regulations ; Germany ; institutional change ; varieties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003986342
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The evils of forced migration : do integration policies alleviate migrants' economic situations?
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Link, Susanne - 2011
forced to leave their homelands and settle within the new borders of West Germany. Subsequently, a law was introduced to …-in-differences ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310062
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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (on ethnicity, religion and war)
Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2008
The Ottoman Empire had a profound impact in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa at the apogee of its power, covering the era between 1453 C. E. and 1699 C. E. In this paper, I exploit the empire's unique culture and institutions to examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726794
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From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger : early life conditions and adult health in Ireland
Delaney, Liam; McGovern, Mark E.; Smith, James P. - 2009
We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910207
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Herausbildung erster Wesenszüge des Normalarbeitsverhältnisses in Deutschland
Kendzia, Michael Jan - 2010
contract in Germany from the middle of the 19th century until the beginning of World War I. The beginning of the welfare state … in Germany took place during the 1880s on the basis of dependent employment. For the analysis of this type of employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780307
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War and endogenous democracy
Ticchi, Davide (contributor); Vindigni, Andrea (contributor) - 2008
Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century occurred during or in the aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of international conflicts on domestic political institutions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688773
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A long-run view of the university gender gap in Australia
Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2010
The first Australian universities were established in the 1850s, well before the introduction of compulsory schooling. However it was not until the twentieth century that growing industrialisation, technological change and the development of the so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959990