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The Great Migration of Black Americans from the Us South : A Guide and Interpretation
Collins, William J. - 2022
The Great Migration from the US South is a prominent theme in economic history research not only because it was a prime example of large scale internal migration, but also because it had far-reaching ramifications for American economic, social, and political change. This article offers a concise...
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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality
Cunha, Flavio - 2010
This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...
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The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit : The Rights Revolution and Beyond
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
Following on Keynes's Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, this paper develops conjectures about the world we will leave to our grandchildren. It starts by outlining the 10 most important trends that have defined our economic, social, and political lives over the last 100 years. It then...
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Meaningful Information for Domestic Economies in the Light of Globalization – Will Additional Macroeconomic Indicators and Different Presentations Shed Light?
Stapel-Weber, Silke; Konijn, Paul; Verrinder, John; … - 2021
group in Ireland for improving insight into the Irish economy2. However it goes beyond that, as any new indicator or …
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Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth
McMillan, Margaret - 2011
Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123689
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Why are American Workers Getting Poorer? China, Trade and Offshoring
Ebenstein, Avraham - 2015
We suggest that the impact of globalization on wages has been missed because its effects must be captured by analyzing … occupational exposure to globalization. In this paper, we extend our previous work to include recent years (2003-2008), a period of … effects of globalization, with offshoring to low wage countries and imports both associated with wage declines for US workers …
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Coping with Shocks and Shifts : The Multilateral Trading System in Historical Perspective
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2013
shifts. By shocks we mean sudden jolts to the world economy in the form of financial crises and deep recessions, or wars and …
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Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality : Measures of the Labor Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era
Fishback, Price V. - 2010
One of the most difficult problems in the social sciences is measuring the policy climate in societies. Prior to the 1930s the vast majority of labor regulations in the U.S. were enacted at the state level. In this paper we develop several summary measures of labor regulation that document the...
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The Continental Dollar : What Happened to it after 1779?
Grubb, Farley - 2010
Congress financed the American Revolution by issuing paper Continental Dollars. The story of the Continental Dollar is familiar to all -- a lot were issued and hyper-inflation ensued. Emissions were permanently discontinued in 1779. Thereafter, they became worthless and were forgotten. They had...
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A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Critical Transitions
Alston, Lee J. - 2016
Critical transitions for a country are historical periods when the powerful organizations in a country shift from one set of beliefs about how institutions (the formal and informal rules of the game) will affect outcomes to a new set of beliefs. Critical transitions can lead a country toward...
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