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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe

D'Amuri, Francesco - 2011

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...

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Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences : Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration

Iranzo, Susana - 2007

between industrializing and industrialized countries. Due to restrictive laws in the receiving countries and high migration … costs, the increase in international migration has involved mainly highly educated workers. During the same period … phenomena of migration and trade in a world where countries use different skill-specific technologies and workers have different …

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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy

de la Croix, David - 2016

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...

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Business Cycles in International Historical Perspective

Basu, Susanto - 1999

This paper examines business cycles theoretically and empirically, with a quantitative study based on experience over the long run and in a cross section of countries. Several major questions in business cycle theory are explored. Theoretical concerns indicate that the properties of business...

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The Shrinking Advantage of Market Potential

Brülhart, Marius - 2019

How does a country's economic geography evolve along the development path? This paper documents recent employment growth in 18,961 regions in eight of the world's main economies. Overall, market potential is losing importance, and local density is gaining importance, as correlates of local...

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International Transactions : Real Trade and Factor Flows between 1700 and 1870

Keller, Wolfgang - 2020

This paper describes broad regional and temporal trends in the evolution of international trade and international factor flows between 1700 and 1870, including key differences in trade costs across space and time. We find trade links in Western Europe and the European colonies of North America...

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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence

Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...

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Complex Ownership Structures and Corporate Valuations

Laeven, Luc - 2006

The bulk of corporate governance theory examines the agency problems that arise from two extreme ownership structures: 100 percent small shareholders or one large, controlling owner combined with small shareholders. In this paper, we question the empirical validity of this dichotomy. In fact,...

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Why Do Europeans Smoke More than Americans?

Cutler, David M. - 2006

While Americans are less healthy than Europeans along some dimensions (like obesity), Americans are significantly less likely to smoke than their European counterparts. This difference emerged in the 1970s and it is biggest among the most educated. The puzzle becomes larger once we account for...

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Economic History and Economic Development : New Economic History in Retrospect and Prospect

Temin, Peter - 2014

I argue in this paper for more interaction between economic history and economic development. Both subfields study economic development; the difference is that economic history focuses on high-wage countries while economic development focuses on low-wage economies. My argument is based on recent...

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