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The French Revolution of 1789 had a momentous impact on neighboring countries. The French Revolutionary armies during … the 1790s and later under Napoleon invaded and controlled large parts of Europe. Together with invasion came various … that the Revolution destroyed (the institutional underpinnings of) the power of oligarchies and elites opposed to economic …
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How can workers have a voice in the face of declining unionization and rising nontraditional career paths? To demonstrate how a new labor market institution can emerge, I develop a model of fundraising by a workers' organization in which the founder must allocate resources between the provision...
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predictions of our simple model are consistent with the contrasting performance of the labor market in Europe and US in terms of … the economy with unemployment insurance (Europe). As a result, unemployment doubles in this economy. In the laissez …
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This paper starts from two sets of facts about Continental Europe.The first is the steady increase in unemployment … of chronic excess employment by firms. The second explanation points to technological bias: firms in Continental Europe …
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literature on the effects of racial diversity and immigration on support for redistribution in the US and Europe …
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This study investigates the economic consequences of parental leave mandates using data for 16 European countries over the 1969 through 1988 period. Since women use virtually all of the family leave in most nations, men constitute a reasonable comparison group and the natural experiment in most...
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populist politicians highlight. The first has been predominant in Latin America, and the second in Europe. I argue that these …
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using exogenous refugee supply shocks as natural experiments. Several studies have reached conflicting conclusions about the effects of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in...
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Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped …
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FDI plays a central role in managing global production networks, but FDI statistics also reflect other factors, including tax avoidance, that make it difficult to differentiate between FDI for “long-term” investments that serves as a source of growth and FDI that is purely financial and has...
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