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Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...
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account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by … the first national estimates of average schooling in 1940. We show that mass migrations have had a significant but modest …
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account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by … the first national estimates of average schooling in 1940. We show that mass migrations have had a significant but modest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703138
Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739418
With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the …
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A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of …
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This paper provides an analysis of the effects of attrition and non-response on employment and wages using the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. We consider a structural model composed of three freely correlated equations for non-attrition/response, employment and wages. The model...
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In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions …
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The conditions under which profit sharing affects workplace productivity have never been fully understood. Using panel data, this paper examines whether there is any link between adoption of an employee profit sharing plan and subsequent productivity growth in Canadian establishments, and...
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This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …
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