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Globalisation and Maritime Labour in Norway after World War II

Tenold, Stig - 2014

This paper looks at how "Globalisation" – narrowly defined as the causes and effects of increased international economic integration – has influenced the demand for and supply of maritime products and services, with a particular emphasis on maritime labour. A central argument is that the...

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Globalisation and maritime labour in Norway after World War II.

Tenold, Stig - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2014

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Labour productivity and human capital in the European maritime sector of the eighteenth century

Van Lottum, Jelle; Zanden, Jan Luiten van - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 53 (2014), pp. 83-100

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Labour Productivity and human capital in the maritime sector of the North Atlantic, c. 1672-1815

van Lottum, Jelle; van Zanden, Jan Luiten - Centre for Global Economic History (CGEH), Universiteit … - 2011

why Europeans were so efficient in organizing large international networks of shipping and trade. Most studies concerning … early modern shipping have focused on changes in shipdesign in explaining long-term performance of European shipping in the … there were close links between the level of labour productivity in shipping and the quality of the workforce. This suggests …

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Not the best fillers in of forms? : the Danish and Norwegian graduate biographies and "upper tail knowledge"

Ford, Nicholas Martin; Ranestad, Kristin; Sharp, Paul - 2023

"Upper tail knowledge", embodied by knowledge elites, has been suggested to be a driving force of industrialization and development, yet measuring it remains problematic. Despite some recent innovations, much empirical work continues to rely on measures of "average" or "non-upper tail" human...

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Not the best fillers in of forms? The Danish and Norwegian graduate biographies and "upper tail knowledge"

Ford, Nicholas Martin; Ranestad, Kristin; Sharp, Paul - 2023

'Upper tail knowledge', embodied by knowledge elites, has been suggested to be a driving force of industrialization and development, yet measuring it remains problematic. Despite some recent innovations, much empirical work continues to rely on measures of 'average' or 'non-upper tail' human...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551725

Escaping the Holocaust : human and health capital of refugees to the United States, 1940-42

Blum, Matthias; Rei, Claudia - 2015

The large-scale persecution of Jews during World War II generated massive refugee movements. Using data from 20,441 predominantly Jewish passengers from 19 countries traveling from Lisbon to New York between 1940 and 1942, we analyze the last wave of refugees escaping the Holocaust and verify...

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Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital Under Post-War Distress : The Displaced and the Roma in the Former Yugoslavia

Kahanec, Martin - 2010

In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia using a unique 2004 UNDP dataset. Treating the collapse of the former Yugoslavia as a natural experiment, we compare three groups that have been...

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Human Capital Formation during Communism and Transition: Evidence from Bulgaria

Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Is it true that communist countries had well-developed human capital, or is it just a myth? What were human capital stocks at the beginning of transition to market economy? What happened to human capital formation during the transition? We attempt to answer these questions using evidence from...

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Artificial intelligence, tasks, skills and wages : worker-level evidence from Germany

Engberg, Erik; Koch, Michael; Lodefalk, Magnus; … - 2023

This paper documents novel facts on within-occupation task and skill changes over the past two decades in Germany. In a second step, it reveals a distinct relationship between occupational work content and exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation (robots). Workers in occupations...

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