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supply of labor encourages technological progress. In contrast, the famous Habakkuk hypothesis in economic history claims …This paper studies the conditions under which the scarcity of a factor (in particular, labor) encourages technological … that technological progress was more rapid in 19th-century United States than in Britain because of labor scarcity in the …
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against the disabled in hiring, firing, and pay. Although the ADA was meant to increase employment of the disabled, it also … employment of disabled men of all working ages and disabled women under age 40. The effects appear to be larger in medium size … little evidence of an impact on the nondisabled, suggesting that the adverse employment consequences of the ADA have been …
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labor reallocation, which should raise employment in non-exposed sectors, and Keynesian multipliers, which should reduce …Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing …
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The French Revolution of 1789 had a momentous impact on neighboring countries. The French Revolutionary armies during the 1790s and later under Napoleon invaded and controlled large parts of Europe. Together with invasion came various radical institutional changes. French invasion removed the...
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Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for economic prosperity. This reversal is...
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We document a statistical association between the severity of the persecution and mass murder of Jews (the Holocaust) by the Nazis during World War II and long-run economic and political outcomes within Russia. Cities that experienced the Holocaust most intensely have grown less, and cities as...
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We study the impact of AI on labor markets, using establishment level data on vacancies with detailed occupational … as they expand AI hiring. However, we find no discernible relationship between AI exposure and employment or wage growth … not yet having detectable aggregate labor market consequences …
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We study the dynamic taxation of capital and labor in the Ramsey model under the assumption that taxes and public good …
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This paper documents that the Rise of (Western) Europe between 1500 and 1850 is largely accounted for by the growth of European nations with access to the Atlantic, and especially by those nations that engaged in colonialism and long distance oceanic trade. Moreover, Atlantic ports grew much...
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that raise the marginal productivity of labor and/or when there is sufficient additional hiring in complementary sectors …
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