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The Consequences of Radical Reform : The French Revolution
Acemoglu, Daron; Cantoni, Davide; Robinson, James A.; … - 2009
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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A Workers' Lobby to Provide Portable Benefits
Hersch, Joni - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469108
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Unions, Workers, and Wages at the Peak of the American Labor Movement
Callaway, Brantly - 2017
We study a novel dataset compiled from archival records, which includes information on men's wages, union status, educational attainment, work history, and other background variables for several cities circa 1950. Such data are extremely rare for the early post-war period when U.S. unions were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455166
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Business environment and firm entry : evidence from international data
Klapper, Leora - 2004
"Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a …
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Consumer City
Glaeser, Ed - 2000
Urban economics has traditionally viewed cities as having advantages in production and disadvantages in consumption. We argue that the role of urban density in facilitating consumption is extremely important and understudied. As firms become more mobile, the success of cities hinges more and...
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Labor Markets in Professional Sports
Rosen, Sherwin - 2000
contemporary labor issues in North America and Europe, from reserve rules and free agency, high levels of player pay and work …
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The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management
Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 1999
over the past decade both in the United States and in Europe. In response, economists have developed models to help policy …
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What Determines Firm Size?
Kumar, Krishna B. - 1999
Motivated by theories of the firm, which we classify as technological' or organizational,' we analyze the determinants of firm size across industries and across countries in a sample of 15 European countries. We find that, on average, firms facing larger markets are larger. At the industry...
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COVID-19 Time-varying Reproduction Numbers Worldwide : An Empirical Analysis of Mandatory and Voluntary Social Distancing
Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, Alessandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper estimates time-varying COVID-19 reproduction numbers worldwide solely based on the number of reported infected cases, allowing for under-reporting. Estimation is based on a moment condition that can be derived from an agent-based stochastic network model of COVID-19 transmission. The...
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Terrorism and Political Attitudes : Evidence from European Social Surveys
Peri, Giovanni; Rees, Daniel I.; Smith, Brock - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Since the turn of the last century, nationalistic political parties have been gaining support in Europe. Over the same …
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