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The in-hospital mortality rates of slaves and freemen: evidence from Touro infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855 - 1860

Pritchett, Jonathan; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2008

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …

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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 …

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Employer preferences and social policy: Business and the development of job security regulations in Germany since World War I

Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - 2010

This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as...

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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo G.; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...

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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)

Chen, Yiu-por - 2012

This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...

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Labor Market Conditions and Post-Reform Declines in Welfare Receipt Among Immigrants

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bean, Frank D. - 2001

lowered immigrant participation, and others have argued that this is true only in California. This paper analyzes the role of …

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Does uninsurance affect the health outcomes of the insured? Evidence from heart attack patients in California

Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012

hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically … - the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and … spillover effects is increased hospital uncompensated care costs. Although data limitations constrain my capacity to check how …

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Causes of changing earnings inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe: the role of services

D'Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; Ward, Melanie E. - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...

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The narrowing of the US gender earnings gap, 1959 - 1999: a cohort-based analysis

Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - 2006

Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...

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