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Ancestral Norms, Legal Origins, and Female Empowerment

Brodeur, Abel - 2020

A large literature documents persistent impacts of formal historical institutions. However, very little is known about how these institutions interact with ancestral traditions to determine long-term economic and social outcomes. This paper addresses this question by studying the persistent...

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Does Financial Deregulation Boost Top Incomes? Evidence from the Big Bang

Tanndal, Julia - 2016

constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations in the United Kingdom in 1986 and Japan 1997 …-1999 increased the share of pre-tax incomes going to top earners by over 20 percent in the U.K. and over 10 percent in Japan. The … in Japan. The findings are robust to placebo tests, alternative ways to construct synthetic controls and scrutiny of post …

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Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan

Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2021

countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include a high degree of regulation in wage setting in most countries. Although …

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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries

Geishecker, Ingo - 2008

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...

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Risk, Institutions and Growth : Why England and Not China?

Greif, Avner - 2011

model incorporating England's and China's distinct pre-modern risk-sharing institutions. The model predicts a transition in … England and not China even with equal levels of risk sharing. Under the clan-based Chinese institution, the relatively risk …

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Access to Justice and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Brazil's Special Civil Tribunals

Lichand, Guilherme - 2011

Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This paper...

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Laws and Norms

Bénabou, Roland - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...

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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century

Gazeley, Ian - 2017

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) of workers in key export industries. We estimate that households in the USA, on average, had...

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Real Wages, Working Time, and the Great Depression : What Does Micro Evidence Tell Us?

Hart, Robert A. - 2010

Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...

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The End of Destitution

Gazeley, Ian - 2009

The paper presents a statistical generalisation, to working families in the whole of Britain, of Rowntree's finding that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary social investigators and two relatively newly-discovered...

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