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Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined? Evidence from British Immigrants

Christopoulou, Rebekka - 2013

We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...

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Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes

Blau, Francine D. - 2012

We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can …. Immigration may affect the composition of skills among the residents of a country. Moreover, immigrants can, by changing relative … recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We …

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Structural Transformation and Value Change : The British Abolitionist Movement

Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

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Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution

Heblich, Stephan; Redding, Stephen; Voth, Hans-Joachim - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Did overseas slave-holding by Britons accelerate the Industrial Revolution? We provide theory and evidence on the contribution of slave wealth to Britain's growth prior to 1835. We compare areas of Britain with high and low exposure to the colonial plantation economy, using granular data on...

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The International Macroeconomics of Taxation and the Case Against European Tax Harmonization

Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2001

The theory of international macroeconomics shows that domestic tax policy in a global economy affects foreign economic conditions via complex, dynamic interactions through relative prices, tax revenues, and wealth distribution. This paper proposes a tractable quantitative framework for assessing...

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From Bismarck to Maastricht : The March to European Union and the Labor Compact

Krueger, Alan B. - 2000

increased after the elimination of remaining restrictions on intra-EU labor mobility in 1993. Moreover, immigration from non-EU …This paper considers the likely impact that European Union (EU) will have on the labor compact. It is argued that … integration will place on the labor compact. Evidence is presented suggesting that labor mobility among EU countries has not …

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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for EMU

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999

be hard to resist the eventual extension of existing EU mechanisms of income redistribution--a transfer union. We propose … an alternative strategy based on a relaxed stability pact, further strictures against central EU borrowing, labor market …

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Poisoned Grapes, Mad Cow, and Protectionism

Engel, Eduardo - 1999

This paper studies two episodes where an exporting industry saw its sales plummet after importing countries banned their products to protect their citizens' health. The first case is the poisoned grapes crisis involving Chile and the United States in 1989. The second is the mad cows dispute...

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Trends in Male Labor Force Participation And Retirement : Some Evidence On The Role Of Pensions And Social Security In The 1970's And 1980's

Anderson, Patricia M. - 1997

This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in the 1970's and 1980's. Work incentives associated with pension" coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the...

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Estimates of the Value of Patent Rights in European Countries During thePost-1950 Period

Schankerman, Mark - 1985

This paper examines the distribution of the values of patent rights in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany during the post-1950 period. These values are inferred from the behavior of patentees with respect to payment of renewal fees on their patents. A simple economic model of renewal...

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