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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/10005548216

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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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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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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Pushing Wheat: Why Supply Mattered for the American Grain Invasion of Britain in the Nineteenth Century

Sharp, Paul - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2008

This paper documents the evolution of variables central to understanding the creation of an Atlantic Economy in wheat between the US and the UK in the nineteenth century. The cointegrated VAR model is then applied to the period 1838-1913 in order to find long-run relationships between these...

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Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913

Rosés, Joan R.; Kevin H. O’Rourke; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2007

The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in modern industrial growth breaks that link. Recently,...

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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

Collins, W-J; O'Rourke, K-H; Williamson, J-G - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1997

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question : Are trade and factor flows substitutes? This paper uses history to fill the gap.

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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

Collins, William J; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...

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