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Disease, Downturns, and Wellbeing : Economic History and the Long-Run Impacts of Covid-19
Arthi, Vellore - 2020
potential long-run impact on individuals over decades and even generations. History, however, offers a solution. Historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823387
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Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing Revisited : A Resolution of the Entrepreneurial Labor Input Problem
Margo, Robert A. - 2013
In a famous paper, Kenneth Sokoloff argued that the labor input of entrepreneurs was generally not included in the count of workers in manufacturing establishments in the early censuses of manufacturing. According to Sokoloff, this biased downward econometric estimates of economies of scale if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080210
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Exploring Reallocation's Apparent Weak Contribution to Growth
Nishida, Mitsukuni - 2015
Two recent meta-analyses use variants of the Baily, Hulten, and Campbell (1992) (BHC) decompositions to ask whether recent robust growth in Aggregate Labor Productivity (ALP) across twenty-five countries is due to lower barriers to input reallocation. They find weak gains from measured...
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A Century of Work and Leisure
Ramey, Valerie A.; Francis, Neville - 2021
Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for the last 105 years. We also present empirical and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252327
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The Global Decline of the Labor Share
Karabarbounis, Loukas - 2015
The stability of the labor share of income is a key foundation in macroeconomic models. We document, however, that the global labor share has significantly declined since the early 1980s, with the decline occurring within the large majority of countries and industries. We show that the decrease...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035476
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The Same Yet Different : Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries
Freeman, Richard B. - 2010
This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes … employee reports on the quality of labour-management relations and establishment average measures of employee performance 4) a … relation between country level performance in the firm and measures of the extent of national labour regulations or practices …
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The 2004 Global Labor Survey : Workplace Institutions and Practices Around the World
Chor, Davin; Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
countries around the world, covering issues such as freedom of association, the regulation of work contracts, employee benefits …) and competitiveness (World Economic Forum). Although our pool of respondents differs greatly from the conservative … foundations and business leaders who contribute respectively to the Fraser Institute and World Economic Forum reports, the GLS and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240988
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Observations on International Labor Standards and Trade
Krueger, Alan B. - 2021
This paper reviews the theoretical arguments for and against linking international labor standards to trade. Based on theory alone it is difficult to generalize about the effect of labor standards on efficiency and equity. Some economists have argued that international labor standards are merely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313652
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The Golden Dilemma
Erb, Claude B. - 2013
hedge. We also explore valuation. The real price of gold is currently high compared to history. In the past, when the real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088402
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"Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration"
Taylor, Alan M. - 2013
Between 1870 and 1913, economic convergence among present OECD members (or even a wider sample of countries) was dramatic, about as dramatic as it has been over the past century and a half. The convergence can be documented in GDP per worker-hour, GDP per capita and in real wages. What were the...
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