Herbert Elzer ist in den letzten Jahren mit zahlreichen Detailstudien zum Saarreferendum von 1955 in Erscheinung getreten, die verstreut publiziert sind. Über die Rolle wichtiger Landespolitiker aus Baden-Württemberg bei der Europäisierung der Saar hat er genauso geschrieben wie über die...

Herbert Elzer ist in den letzten Jahren mit zahlreichen Detailstudien zum Saarreferendum von 1955 in Erscheinung getreten, die verstreut publiziert sind. Über die Rolle wichtiger Landespolitiker aus Baden-Württemberg bei der Europäisierung der Saar hat er genauso geschrieben wie über die...

Contemporary bank governance is criticized for manager-dominated (insider) boards of directors, but from the beginning of the nineteenth century, bank presidents appear also to have operated as chairmen of the boards of directors. However, the managers were constrained by a variety of rules that...

In this paper, I follow the development of the classification scheme discussions closely through its formative decade, from the last years of the 1890s through about 1913, by which time three revealing publications close the prewar developments: the United States Immigration Commission's massive...

In recent years, a large academic debate has tried to explain the rapid rise in CEO pay experienced over the past three decades. In this article, I review the main proposed theories, which span views of compensation as the result of a competitive labor market for executives to theories based on...

This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD production from 1950 to 2004 and Jews are identified by the Distinctive Jewish Name (DJN)...

Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...

Background: The trend in the BMI values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because time series data are unavailable and because the focus has been on calculating period effects. Object: To estimate the trend and rate of change of BMI values by birth cohorts stratified by...