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The Cobden-Chevalier treaty of 1860 eliminated many French import prohibitions and lowered tariffs between France and … other nations followed because of the use of the unconditional-MFN clause. Post-1860 in France, we find a significant rise …
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We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France …
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France stands out as a country with a low labor force attachment of older workers. A reversal in the trend of French …
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The French pattern of early transitions out of employment is basically explained by the low age at "normal" retirement and by the importance of transitions through unemployment insurance and early-retirement schemes before access to normal retirement. These routes have exempted French workers...
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Over the last fifteen years, France has experienced a reversal of older workers' labor force participation and …
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an improved current account). France%u2019s decision to suspend the free coinage of silver in 1876 played a paramount … that France%u2019s decision to end bimetallism was exogenous from the viewpoint of countries on the silver standard. To …
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disaggregation. At the dawn of the first Globalization, France appears to have specialized along Ricardian lines, exporting a handful … question in France between 1836 and 1938. The period witnessed the onset of modern economic growth and sharp changes in the … of modern studies. Changes in trade costs along with economic growth help explain the evolution of France's comparative …
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-run income loss or gain for countries that experienced crises. This is in contrast to the recent wave of globalization when …
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In the Belle Époque, Belgium recorded an unprecedented trade boom, but growth in output per capita was lackluster. We seek to reconcile this ostensible paradox. Because of the sharp decline in both fixed and variable trade costs, the trade boom was as much about the expansion in the number of...
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