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Maritime Trade and Merchant Shipping : The Shipping/Trade-Ratio from the 1870s Until Today

Ojala, Jari - 2016

This paper discusses the development of countries' market shares in world shipping over the last 150 years. The … analysis is based upon a new and purpose-built indicator: the shipping/trade-ratio. This indicator presents the relationship … between the merchant marine of a country and the country's role in world trade. Analysis of the shipping …

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Globalisation and Maritime Labour in Norway after World War II

Tenold, Stig - 2014

This paper looks at how "Globalisation" – narrowly defined as the causes and effects of increased international economic integration – has influenced the demand for and supply of maritime products and services, with a particular emphasis on maritime labour. A central argument is that the...

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The Effect of Labor Market Shocks Across the Life Cycle

Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2022

Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the broader economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual’s career, and economic shocks may...

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Sharing Mare Nostrum : An Analysis of Mediterranean Maritime History Articles in English-Language Journals

Ojala, Jari; Tenold, Stig - 2015

This discussion paper is a follow-up to a previous bibliometric analysis of articles published in The International Journal of Maritime History and maritime-themed articles published in other economic and business history journals over the last 25 years. The paper looks more closely at articles...

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Navigating Through Torpedo Attacks and Enemy Raiders : Merchant Shipping and Freight Rates During World War I

Klovland, Jan Tore - 2017

neutral shipping was basically free to operate as normal. In this period neutral shipping accounted for about one third of …

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The Blue Maritime Cluster Crisis : Financial Instability and Supply Chain Management Effects

Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2019

The present paper investigates the offshore crisis 2015-2017 and its impact on one of the most complete maritime clusters, more precise the Blue Maritime Cluster, located at Møre og Romsdal at the North Western Coast of Norway.As this cluster is heavily involved in offshore petroleum...

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Shipping in Dire Straits : New Evidence on Trends and Cycles in Coal Freights from Britain, 1919-1939

Klovland, Jan Tore - 2016

in the autumn of 1929 created a shipping cycle of unusual length and severity. Real freight rate indices used as a cross …-check on productivity gains in shipping raise some doubt on previous estimates of productivity growth in British shipping in …

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A Continuous Consumer Price Index for Norway 1492–2017

Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2018

This manuscript presents a new combined annual cost of living and consumer price index for Norway covering the period 1492-2017. When previous Norwegian historical consumer price indices partly were constructed on the basis of very limited data, the new historical index is constructed on a...

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A Chronology of Financial Crises for Norway

Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2010

The paper offers a chronology of financial crises in Norway from her independence in 1814 till present times. Firstly, business cycles, covering almost two hundred years of economic history are mapped. These reveal years of crises in the real economy. These seem to coincide with most of the...

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What Money Can Buy? Three Centuries of Norwegian Wage and Price Development

Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2010

On the basis of newly utilized data from one of the largest manual historical archives on wages and prices internationally and unpublished data from Statistics Norway this article offers new wage and price series for Norway 1726-2006, which enable us to calculate real wages. These cover all main...

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