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took place and trace back the development of wage labor within agriculture, industry and service sector. In particular, the …-industrial time the social organization of work occurred in various forms and that wage labor was rather a rare phenomenon in the … beginning of the 19th century. Hence, a widespread and functioning labor market cannot be identified at that time. Rudimentary …
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Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low …
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the labor-market effects of other important refugee waves can be produced by spurious correlation between the instrument …
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; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …
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International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...
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pre-registered subsamples. The results imply very low substitutability of native for foreign labor in the policy …-relevant occupations. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor. …
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The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in …
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The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to eradicating a specific disease, it was spearheaded by voluntary associations and supported by the sale of Christmas seals. Although remarkable in its scope and intensity, the...
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Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. What was its impact on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification with the length of higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for...
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History is a key subject in most educational system in Western countries, and there is ongoing concern about the the … proposes a simple linetime test for quantitatively measuring a human sense of history. The paper reports the results of the …
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