qualitative and quantitative data, including several thousand interviews with former slaves, letters, labor contracts, memoirs …

qualitative and quantitative data, including several thousand interviews with former slaves, letters, labor contracts, memoirs …

, the resulting estimates, labor productivity, and the characteristics of informal sector production units. …

abundant labor force, rich natural resources, and geographical location.But the country faces many development challenges to … location between the People’s Republic of China and India, and act as a conduit between South and Southeast Asia.In order to …

In 1994 the World Bank called East Asia's strong economic growth performance a "miracle". Trade openness, high savings … was left unexplained. Research in the ensuing years has shown that when demographic change in East Asia is taken into … account, the miracle is explained. These earlier studies used the 1960-1990 sample period, but since 1990 Asia has undergone …

dynamic evolution of past variation in birth and death rates, is producing a significant shift in age structure in Asia. The … consequences of population aging depend on behavioral responses to the shift in age structure: the female labor force participation … and economic growth. The results suggest that population aging may not significantly impede economic performance in Asia …

, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning … surveys Mokyr’s important contributions to the field of economic history, and an essay by Mokyr himself on the origins of the …

, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning … surveys Mokyr’s important contributions to the field of economic history, and an essay by Mokyr himself on the origins of the …

Labor migration is a defining attribute of today's global economy, as more people live outside their country of birth … opportunity to investigate the movement of a highly skilled labor force (Kahn, 2000). Therefore, the current study will … investigate 21st century labor migration patterns and their relationship to productivity in the context of arguably the largest …