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historical flows of German, Norwegian, and domestic migrants in the US and document that climate sorting also holds within …
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reputation externalities matter for firms. We find that the Volkswagen scandal reduced the U.S. sales of the other German auto …
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We compile large datasets from Norwegian and US historical censuses to study return migration during the Age of Mass … Migration (1850-1913). Return migrants were somewhat negatively selected from the migrant pool: Norwegian immigrants who … returned to Norway held slightly lower-paid occupations than Norwegian immigrants who stayed in the US, both before and after …
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Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international …
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abruptly downgraded their previously high social standing, we propose a novel measure of local anti-German sentiment based on … more anti-German slurs reported in newspapers. German movers had worse occupational outcomes after the war but also the … communities, a few years of intense anti-German sentiment were reflected in worse economic outcomes that lasted for more than a …
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We combine survey data on British and German immigrants in the US with data on natives in Britain and Germany to …
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and transferred to West Germany. This inflow increased the German population by almost 20%. Using variation across …
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The origin of the modern publicly-held joint-stock company is typically traced to large-scale maritime trading companies in England and the Netherlands in the early 17th century. Highlighting medieval cases in southern Europe, we claim that the joint-stock company likely emerged in several times...
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What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...
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The evolution of the IMS and IFS in the past several hundred years can be viewed through the lens of the Copernican heliocentric system developed over 500 years ago. We trace out the evolution across regimes of the IMS and IFS in terms of network representations of the Copernican system. We...
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