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We explore the exercise of power in perpetuating status quo institutions. We give empirical examples of the economic … speculations concerning the role of guard labor in the process of economic development and how economies might function better with …
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The paper analyses the development of trafficking in human beings (THB) as an economic crime and as a severe violation … definition. A growing demand for (cheap) labour, sexual services and women for (forced) marriages, economic and demographic …
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benefits can harm workers. Second, this article shows how labor law should incorporate advances in economic theory that …
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into ‘economic government' threatening not only economic disaster but the end of the world's first supranational project … economic austerity as an excuse for denying democratic and constitutional possibilities at submit meetings, bailouts and new … anti-democratic economic agreements. Habermas encourages his readers to understand the lessons of the past while looking …
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, Scotland had a stable financial system. Its stability arose from the pressure that private banks, which had the right to issue bank notes, placed on each other to behave prudently. Unlike in England, the Scottish banking system had no central...
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The sex gap in life expectancy (LE) at birth is currently narrowing in all high-income countries. Previous research on Western European and English-speaking (WE&ES) countries suggested that smoking-related mortality at ages 50+ was largely responsible for both widening and subsequent narrowing...
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When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is important. This paper presents three alternative measures of top income shares that more explicitly account for population and income growth than the standard measure. We apply these...
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This paper summarizes the proceedings of "Labor Market Developments in the United States and Canada since 2000," a December 2004 conference cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Canadian Consulate General in New York, the Centre for the Study of Living Standards, and the New...
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What makes elites developmental instead of predatory? We argue that Mozambique's elite was developmental at independence 35 years ago. With pressure and encouragement from international forces, it became predatory. It has now partly returned to its developmental roots and is trying to use the...
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Resource-rich dictatorships are more inclined to repress civil society than others. In this paper, we identify a tradeoff between political rents from natural resources and the organizational density of civil society. This organizational density determines the extent to which citizens can...
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