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The Legacies of Slavery in and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this …" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic, institutional, demographic, and social implications. Next I evaluate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016389
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The Long-Term Determinants of Female HIV Infection in Africa : The Slave Trade, Polygyny, and Sexual Behavior
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016394
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122110
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Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe : For Money or Colonial Vestiges?
Constant, Amelie F. - 2009
by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153298
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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136720
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Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States
Banks, James W. - 2010
This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138268
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Inequality During the Early Years : Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce - 2011
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118038
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Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply : Working Hours in the US, UK and France
Blundell, Richard W. - 2011
This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119012
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Mind the Gap : Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US
Marx, Ive - 2012
This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106961
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The Effect of Family Structure on Parents' Child Care Time in the United States and the United Kingdom
Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - 2006
We use time-diary data from the 2003 and 2004 American Time Use Surveys and the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Study to estimate the effect of family structure on the time mothers and fathers spend on primary and passive child care and on market work, using a system of correlated Tobit equations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779029