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Migrants and the Making of America : The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Immigration During the Age of Mass Migration

Sequeira, Sandra - 2017

We study the effects of European immigration to the United States during the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1920) on … economic prosperity today. We exploit variation in the extent of immigration across counties arising from the interaction of … locations with more historical immigration today have higher incomes, less poverty, less unemployment, higher rates of …

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Creativity over time and space : a historical analysis of European cities

Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2021

Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...

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Social Attitudes and Economic Development : An Epidemiological Approach

Algan, Yann - 2007

In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their forebears. In the spirit of the epidemiology literature,...

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Immigration Policy and Counterterrorism

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Sandler, Todd M. - 2012

developed nation decides its optimal mix of immigration quotas and defensive counterterrorism actions. Even though proactive …. Increases in the unskilled immigration quota augment terrorism against the developed country. By contrast, increases in the … skilled immigration quota can reduce terrorism in the developed country if skilled migrants have a small marginal impact on …

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Mass Refugee Inflow and Long-run Prosperity: Lessons from the Greek Population Resettlement

Murard, Elie; Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan - 2020

refugee settlements across the universe of more than four thousand Greek municipali-ties that existed in 1920. Using a battery …

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Creativity over Time and Space

Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido - 2019

Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532905

Sailing Through History: The Legacy of Medieval Sea Trade On Migrant Perception and Extreme Right Voting

Bottasso, Anna; Cerruti, Gianluca; Conti, Maurizio; … - 2024

. Interestingly, right-wing parties started to attract less votes near Medieval ports only when immigration had become a very salient …

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Resource windfalls and public dector employment : evidence from municipalities in Chile

Larraín Bascuñán, Felipe; Perelló, Oscar - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 19 (2019) 2, pp. 127-167

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Some of the theoretical basis of local self-government in the Czech Republic

Pospíšil, Petr; Lebiedzik, Marian - In: Danube : law and economics review 8 (2017) 1, pp. 31-43

) definition of self-governing tasks of municipalities and regions in the future. …

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Evaluation of service delivery within local municipalities of South Africa

Zondi, Wellington B.; Nzimakwe, Ian T.; Mbili, Maxwel - In: International journal of economic perspectives : IJEP 11 (2017) 2, pp. 629-637

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