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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
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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
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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, 1470-1...
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 �draperies� or cloth industries of the late-medieval Low Countries and England had become increasingly dependent upon northern markets and the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827229
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245026
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651897
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Deviant Behavior : A Century of Philippine Industrialization
de Dios, Emmanuel S.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - School of Economics, University of the Philippines at … - 2013
Recent work has documented industrial output growth around the poor periphery from 1870 to the present, finding unconditional convergence on the leaders long before the modern BRICS and even before the Asian Tigers. The Philippines was very much part of that catching up. In the decade or so up...
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L'economia di Ancona dall'Unita al XXI secolo. Prerogative, vincoli, illusioni
GIULIANELLI, Roberto - In: Economia Marche / Journal of Applied Economics XXXI1 (2013) 1, pp. 49-78
Obiettivo di questo paper Š ragionare intorno alle fondamentali prerogative dell'economia di Ancona dall'Unita' d'Italia fino ai nostri giorni. Il capoluogo delle Marche ha a lungo coltivato l'ambizione di trasformarsi in un centro industriale. L'analisi della letteratura esistente...
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Engineering and labor specialization during the industrial revolution
Glaser, Darrell J.; Rahman, Ahmed S. - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 8 (2014) 2, pp. 173-200
This paper explores how technological changes affected labor allocations within the U.S. Navy. During the latter nineteenth century, the officer corps was highly specialized, split between groups of line and staff officers. Developments in general purpose technologies created a dilemma for the...
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Variability in overseas travel by Americans, 1820–2000
Dupont, Brandon; Weiss, Thomas - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 7 (2013) 3, pp. 319-339
There were substantial fluctuations in the number of American overseas travelers, especially before World War Two. These fluctuations in travel around the long-term upward trend are the focus of this paper. We first identify those fluctuations in the data and then try to explain the patterns. We...
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