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This Selected Issues paper focuses on constructing a high-frequency economic growth indicator for Suriname. Most economic data for Suriname are available only with a substantial time lag and on a low-frequency basis, impeding such analyses. This paper presents a simple econometric model that...
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medieval era. Several currencies existed alongside the mark penning. In addition, various foreign gold coins circulated at a …
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those areas not well treated by Reynolds and other historians: in the fields of mining, metallurgy, and textiles … more capital costly, overshot wheels. The study thus begins with the late-medieval technological revolutions in both mining …
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This paper seeks to provide a new and chiefly monetary explanation for the origins of the sixteenth-century era of sustained inflation (c.1520 - c.1640) commonly known as the Price Revolution'; and in particular it provides an answer to the question: not, as traditionally posed, why did the...
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celebration in collective memory. Looking at case studies of mining and shipbuilding in the shared location of Wearside the paper … memory in this place. Using visual representations the paper makes the case that the mining industry has experienced a … examination of the aesthetic forms of representation in which mining is seen as characterised by the aesthetics of labour, whereas …
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The severe productivity slowdown in coal mining in the 1970s has been widely attributed to the Coal Mine Health and …
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areas not well treated by Reynolds and other historians: in the fields of mining, metallurgy, and textiles – including the … costly, overshot wheels. The study thus begins with the late-medieval technological revolutions in both mining and metallurgy …
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This paper reviews the German miners' model of mutual insurance from its introduction in 1854 to its basic reformation in 1923. Its core feature was the provision of cash benefits for compensation of income losses due to temporary sickness and permanent invalidity or death of the bread-winner....
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In recent years, the productivity performance of oil and gas extraction in Canada has been dismal. Based on official real GDP and labour input estimates from Statistics Canada, labour productivity in oil and gas extraction fell 8.23 per cent per year between the 2000 cyclical peak and 2007, with...
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In recent years, the productivity performance of mining in Canada has been very poor. Based on official real GDP and … labour input estimates from Statistics Canada, labour productivity in mining fell by 2.21 per cent per year between the 2000 … productivity in mining, it is not necessarily true that Canadians are worse off. In fact, increased relative output prices for …
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