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The High-pressure U.S. Labor Market of the 1990s

Katz, Lawrence; Krueger, Alan - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1999

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The High-pressure U.S. Labor Market of the 1990s

Katz, Lawrence; Krueger, Alan - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1999

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738552

The Monetary Origins of the Price Revolution' Before the Influx of Spanish-American Treasure: the South German Silver-Copper Trades, Merchant-Banking, and Venetian Commerce, 1470-1540

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 1999

sustained inflation (c.1520 - c.1640) commonly known as the Price Revolution'; and in particular it provides an answer to the … economists and historians had attributed this sustained European inflation to the influx of Spanish-American treasure', chiefly … historians pointed out that European inflation had commenced as early as the 1520s, some three decades before any substantial …

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Hanseatic Commerce in Textiles from the Low Countries and England during the Later Middle Ages:

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007

This paper analyses the major changes in textile products, production costs, prices, and market orientations during the era when the ï¿½draperiesï¿½ or cloth industries of the late-medieval Low Countries and England had become increasingly dependent upon northern markets and the German...

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Republic of Estonia; 2013 Article IV Consultation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

Estonia has succeeded in reducing its macroeconomic imbalances and vulnerabilities, but faces the challenge of preserving its hard-earned fiscal and financial stability and enhancing long-term growth prospects. In this regard, adopting a fully fledged medium-term fiscal framework can help assess...

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The effects of working time reductions on wages, actual hours and equilibrium unemployment

Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2001

This paper extends a general equilibrium model of unemployment and working hours and evaluates the model on a 5 percent …. Furthermore, working time reductions may result in an increase in wage pressure, causing unemployment to rise. …

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The 'Industrial Crisis' of the English Textile Towns, c.1290 - c.1330

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 1998

The paper's thesis is that the chief causes for the well-known `industrial crisis' of the traditional English textile towns during the period c.1290 - c.1340 was not the emergence of supposedly superior, lower-cost rural competition, as is generally supposed, but rather a far-reaching economic...

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Industrial Change in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Low Countries: the Arrival of Spanish Merino Wools and the Expansion of the 'Nouvelles Draperies'

Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2002

This paper seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why initially only those cloth producers known as the nouvelles draperies chose to use them, and why their resort to such merino wools allowed at least some of them to escape the...

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Spanish Merino Wools and the Nouvelles Draperies: An Industrial Transformation in the Late-Medieval Low Countries

Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005

This paper, a much revised version of an earlier paper (with different tables), seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why initially only those cloth producers known as the nouvelles draperies chose to use them, and why their resort...

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The West European Woollen Industries and their Struggles for International Markets, c.1000 - 1500

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2000

Although this paper is, ostensibly, a macro- and micro-economic historical study of competition in the West European woollen textile ind ustries, in France, the Low Countries, England, Italy, and Iberia (Catalonia and Aragon), and of their related wool and cloth trades, covering all of Europe...

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