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The cliometrics of international migration: A survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and approaches of applied economics to investigate a range of historical issues and there are strong parallels with the...
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272652
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Economic history or history of economics? A review essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The story of economic genius
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to...
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Sluggish institutions in a dynamic world: can unions and industrial competition coexist?
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2007
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...
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Social connections and incentives in the workplace: evidence from personnel data
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2008
We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace. To evaluate whether the existence of social connections is beneficial to the firm's overall performance, we explore how the effects of social connections vary with the strength...
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American education in the age of mass migrations 1870 - 1930
Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina - 2009
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269171
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The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security
Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Cooley, Thomas F.; Guner, Nezih - 2008
In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. The data for the U.S. and for a cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of social insurance. We describe a model economy in which...
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Institutional features of wage bargaining in 23 European countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2008
countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include a high degree of regulation in wage setting in most countries. Although …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269067
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Distortions, endogenous managerial skills and productivity differences
Bhattacharya, Dhritiman; Guner, Nezih; Ventura, Gustavo - 2011
are critical in accounting for the differences in size distribution between the U.S. and Japan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280700
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Long-term employment and job security over the last twenty-five years: A comparative study of Japan and the US
Kambayashi, Ryo; Kato, Takao - 2011
-national analysis of micro data from Japan's Employment Status Survey and its U.S. counterpart, Current Population Survey. Our focus is … core employees (employees of prime age of 30-44 who have already accumulated at least five years of tenure) in Japan were … remarkably stable at around 70 percent over the last twenty-five years, and there is little evidence that Japan's Great Recession …
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