potential long-run impact on individuals over decades and even generations. History, however, offers a solution. Historical … long-run effects on health, labor, and human capital of both historical pandemics (with a focus on the 1918 Influenza …

In a famous paper, Kenneth Sokoloff argued that the labor input of entrepreneurs was generally not included in the … thumb" imputation for the entrepreneurial labor input. Using establishment level manufacturing data from the 1850 …-80 censuses and textual evidence I argue that, contrary to Sokoloff's claim, the census did generally include the labor of …

during the last decade produced higher enforcement of labor regulations. The paper computes before-after estimates of the … effect of FTAs on labor inspections and exploits variation across countries using non-signers as a comparison group. The … of labor inspectors and a 60 percent increase in the number of inspections. The North American Free Trade Agreement …

finds that the main factor contributing to poverty reduction has been individuals' changes in labor earnings, and the role …

This paper provides new measures of labor law enforcement across the world. The constructed dataset shows that … jure labor codes as predicted by legal origin theory, they enforce them less, suggesting a more nuanced version of legal … created economies characterized by monopolies and exploitation of workers, which ultimately led to stringent labor laws in an …

. We characterize a class of environments in which the tax on labor goes to zero in the long run, while the tax on capital … income may be non-zero, reversing the standard prediction of the Ramsey tax literature. The zero labor tax is an optimal long … sovereign debt constraints. The front loading of labor taxes allows the economy to build a large (aggregate) debt position in …

productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated across sectors. In this paper, we draw on new micro evidence to ask … to what extent the gap is still present when better measures of sector labor inputs and value added are taken into …

We study the effect of mean-preserving labor reallocation on business cycle outcomes. We develop an empirical … model of the labor market. The model reproduces the empirical results subject to inclusion of two key, empirically plausible …