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Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
de la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias; Mokyr, Joel - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479346
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Expropriation with Hukou Change: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Akgüç, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014
We study the labor market outcomes of males aged 18-60 obtaining an urban hukou as a result of land expropriation …-à-vis native urbanites. We also find that children of families experiencing a hukou change due to expropriation have similar … economic determinant of labor market outcomes and as a source of inequality. Differences in educational investment, regardless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481591
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Expropriation with Hukou Change: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Akgüc, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the labor market outcomes of males aged 18-60 obtaining an urban hukou as a result of land expropriation …-à-vis native urbanites. We also find that children of families experiencing a hukou change due to expropriation have similar … economic determinant of labor market outcomes and as a source of inequality. Differences in educational investment, regardless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105049
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Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies
Addison, John T. - 2015
This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420762
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What Determines the Capital Share over the Long Run of History?
Bengtsson, Erik; Rubolino, Enrico; Waldenström, Daniel - 2020
This paper analyzes the determinants of the labor-capital split in national income for 20 countries since the late 1800s. Our main identification strategy focuses on unique historical quasi-experimental events: i) the introduction of universal suffrage, ii) close election wins of left-wing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269877
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Slavery, education, and inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2010
, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality …. Moreover, we find that the impact of slavery on current income inequality is determined by racial inequality. We test three … alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278600
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality …. Moreover, we find that the impact of slavery on current income inequality is determined by racial inequality. We test three … alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742948
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Alberto Alesina (1957-2020): Man, Researcher, Professor of Economics, Popularizer
Vindigni, Andrea - 2023
This paper offers an overview of Alberto Alesina's life and of his scholarly work (§ 1 and 2). It will be argued, that Alberto would have entirely deserved the award of the Nobel Prize for Economic Science, except only for his premature passing away. His foundational contribution was the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469531
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Factor Shares, Redistribution and Growth in a Captured Democracy
Vindigni, Andrea - 2024
inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital … speaking reflecting inequality) has somewhat interesting effects along the transitional path towards balanced growth. Hereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469727
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De jure and de facto determinants of power: Evidence from Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2012
We evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287591