In classic studies of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1936), a package of contentious social reforms sowed deep fault lines between parties on the right and left. The international trade shocks of the 1930s receive less attention. Leveraging an exposure design and disaggregated trade and...

When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were paid for their work. Important aspects were thus ignored such as how frequently were wages actually paid, how much of the wage was paid in non-monetary form - whether as...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ONE: The Virtuous Circle of Trade and the Labor Compact -- PART 1 HOW GLOBALIZATION CAUSED THE LABOR COMPACT -- TWO: Challenge and Response -- THREE: Markets and States in Old and New Worlds -- FOUR: International Labor Standards: Ideas or Trade...

In the Belle Époque, Belgium recorded an unprecedented trade boom, but growth in output per capita was lackluster. We seek to reconcile this ostensible paradox. Because of the sharp decline in both fixed and variable trade costs, the trade boom was as much about the expansion in the number of...

This paper evaluates five recent experiences of worksharing in Quebec since 1994: Bell Canada, Alcan, Scott Paper, Sico, and the Ministère de l'environnement et de la faune. Based on survey evidence showing that desired work hours tend to approximate actual work hours, previous studies have...