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The Ku Klux Klan reached its heyday in the mid-1920s, claiming millions of members. In this paper, we analyze the 1920s Klan, those who joined it, and the social and political impact that it had. We utilize a wide range of newly discovered data sources including information from Klan membership...
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A major benefit of education is the lower risk of unemployment at higher educational levels. In PSID (Panel Study of … Income Dynamics) data on the male labor force1 the reduction of the incidence of unemployment is found to be far more … important than the reduced duration of unemployment in creating the educational differentials in unemployment rates. In turn …
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behaviors in 10th grade eliminates the unemployment effect, but strengthens the wage effect. As the latter is not explicable by …
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The more education, the less unemployment of women; this relationship is as strong as it is in the male labor force … unemployment. However, the relation between education and turnover is mediated largely by educational differences in on … duration of unemployment are negligible among women, though they are observable, if small, among men. Recent growth in women …
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The assignment of workers to tasks is an important feature of the organization of production within firms. We study how task allocation across workers changes in response to productivity shocks. Pairing hourly productivity data from a ready-made garments firm with granular data on exposure to...
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found in higher-income countries. Among production workers, women's wages are 8 percent lower. We show that by combining …
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But the disappointments can also be attributed to the preferences because they discouraged additional value-addition in assembly and stimulated the use of expensive fabrics that were unlikely to be produced locally. When the MFA was removed, constrained countries such as China moved strongly...
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For two decades, the consensus explanation of the British Industrial Revolution has placed technological change and the supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade...
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This paper analyzes China's experience under U.S. apparel and textile quotas. It makes use of a unique new database that tracks U.S. trading partners' performance under the quota regimes established by the global Multifiber Arrangement (1974 to 1995) and subsequent Agreement on Textiles and...
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In this paper I analyze the productivity gains from trade liberalization in the Belgian textile industry. So far, empirical research has established a strong relationship between opening up to trade and productivity, relying almost entirely on deflated sales to proxy for output in the production...
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