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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. Versus Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...

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Did Vasco Da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later

O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2009

century Venetian spice markets were already well integrated with those in Iberia and northern Europe, implying that Portugal … Europe. In addition, it explores European market integration before and after 1503, the year when da Gama returned from his …

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019

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The Worldwide Economic Impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2021

The paper provides a comparative history of the economic impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. By focussing on the relative price evidence, it is possible to show that the conflict had major economic effects around the world. Britain's control of the seas meant that it was much less...

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Inequality and Happiness : Are Europeans and Americans Different?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2021

happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … Europe inequality makes the poor unhappy, as well as the leftists. This favors the hypothesis that inequality affects … right). The results help explain the greater popular demand for government to fight inequality in Europe relative to the US …

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Work and Leisure in the U.S. And Europe : Why so Different?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021

the U.S. and Europe. Another popular view is that these differences are explained by long-standing European "culture," but … the U.S. and Europe. These policies do not seem to have increased employment, but they may have had a more society …

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Why Doesn'T the Us Have a European-Style Welfare System?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021

these factors appear to explain the differences between the US and Europe. Instead, the differences appear to be the result …

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"Around the European Periphery 1870-1913 : Globalization, Schooling and Growth"

O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

On average, the poor European periphery converged on the rich industrial core in the four or five decades prior to World War I. Some, like the three Scandinavian economies, used industrialization to achieve a spectacular convergence on the leaders, especially in real wages and living standards....

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Mass Migration, Commodity Market Integration and Real Wage Convergence : The Late Nineteenth Century Atlantic Economy

Williamson, Jeffrey G.; O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Hatton, … - 2021

As part of a process that has been at work since 1850, real wages among the current OECD countries converged during the late 19th century. The convergence was pronounced as that which we have seen in the post World War Il period. This paper uses computable general equilibrium models to isolate...

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