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The Emigration Life Cycle : How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries

Clemens, Michael A. - 2020

Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita … than in either chronically poor countries or established rich countries. This suggests an emigration life cycle in which …

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Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life : Evidence from Eleven European Countries

Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele - 2011

With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios, retirement schemes, pensions and insurances, it becomes increasingly important to understand the determinants of cognitive ability among the elderly. Macro-economic recession and...

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Wage and Employment Determination in Volatile Times : Sweden 1913-1939

Holmlund, Bertil - 2012

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...

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The Household Budget Survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965

Gazeley, Ian - 2018

We trace the development of the household expenditure survey from its conception during the Napoleonic Wars until the 1960s. We have compiled the first historical bibliography of household budget surveys in Western Europe and, using the surveys themselves as source material, have traced the...

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Inequality Among European Working Households, 1890-1960

Gazeley, Ian - 2018

In this article we map, for the first time, the time-path of the size distribution of income among working class households in Western Europe, 1890-1960. To do this we exploit data extracted from a large number of newly digitised household expenditure surveys. Many are not representative of the...

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Is Industrialization Conducive to Long-Run Prosperity?

Franck, Raphael - 2015

This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, the study establishes that while the adoption of industrial technology was conducive to economic...

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Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization

Franck, Raphael - 2016

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...

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Flowers of Evil? Industrialization and Long Run Development

Franck, Raphael - 2018

This research explores the effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, the study establishes that while the adoption of industrial technology was conducive to economic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912786

Gender-Biased Technological Change : Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming

Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the hand milking of cows, a task typically performed by women. Combining...

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The Ossified Economy : The Case of Germany, 1870-2020

Naudé, Wim; Nagler, Paula - 2022

We describe Germany's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century through radical innovation and entrepreneurship, and contrast this with the post-World War II period. This latter period, although it contained the German economic miracle, was nevertheless a period during which...

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