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Calculation and moral economies during French debate on the abolition of slavery

Oudin-Bastide, Caroline; Steiner, Philippe - In: The European journal of the history of economic thought 30 (2023) 6, pp. 985-1002

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Buchanan at the American Founding : the constitutional political economy of a republic of equals and unequals

Meadowcroft, John - In: Public choice 183 (2020) 3/4, pp. 389-403

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Does retirement make you happy? : a simultaneous equations approach

Fonseca, Raquel; Kapteyn, Arie; Lee, Jinkook; Zamarro, Gema - In: Insights in the economics of aging, (pp. 339-375). 2017

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The effect of job loss on health : evidence from biomarkers

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Crimmins, Eileen M.; Hurd, Michael D. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 41 (2016), pp. 194-203

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The impact of the American Civil War on city growth

Sanso-Navarro, Marcos; Sanz, Fernando; Vera-Cabello, Maria - 2011

This paper analyzes the persistence of the shock caused by the American Civil War on the relative city size distribution of the United States. Our fi ndings suggest that the effects of this shock were permanent, which sharply contrasts with previous results regarding World War II for Japanese...

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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Berlepsch, Viola von - 2013

Have Irish, German or Italian settlers arriving in the US at the turn of the 20th century left an institutional trace which determines economic development differences to this day? Does the national origin of migrants matter for long-term development? This paper explores whether the distinct...

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The great North Sea flood of 1953, the Deltaworks and the spatial distribution of people

Husby, Trond Grytli; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Hofkes, … - 2013

Large shocks, such as natural disasters, are often found to have little or no effect on the equilibrium distribution of economic activity across space. Two apparently competing theoretical explanations for this phenomenon are the increasing returns theory and the locational fundamentals theory....

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Informal-formal worker wage gap in Turkey : evidence from a semi-parametric approach

Baskaya, Yusuf Soner; Hulagu, Timur - 2011 - This version: February 25, 2011, (preliminary and incomplete)

Using individual level data from Turkstat Household Labor Force Survey for 2005-2009 period and a variety of parametric and semi-parametric techniques, we test two hypothesis regarding formal and informal labor markets: whether there is a wage gap between formal and informal workers and whether...

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Regional dynamics of economic performance in the EU : to what extent spatial spillovers matter?

Özyurt, Selin; Dées, Stéphane - 2015

This paper investigates the main determinants of economic growth in the European Union from a regional perspective. The analysis is based on a recently available dataset from the European Cluster Observatory covering 253 European regions over the period 2002-2008. In addition to the traditional...

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Formal and informal institutions and the economic development in Latin America

Pavarina, Paula Regina de Jesus Pinsetta; Cella, Daltro - 2015

America countries, considering the importance of some attributes related to social capital (ie interpersonal trust, which … America context. In other words, it tries to understanding the relationship between formal and informal 'rules of the game' as … contribution of these two elements to the economic performance of Latin America, considering data provided by large international …

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