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Brain drain in the age of mass migration: Does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?

Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 2012

Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...

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The effects of Dollar/Sterling exchange rate volatility of futures markets for coffee and cocoa

Jumah, Adusei; Kunst, Robert M. - 1999

The paper investigates the extent to which the dollar/sterling exchange rate fluctuations affect coffee and cocoa futures prices on the London LIFFE and the New York CSCE by means of multivariate GARCH models - under the assumption that traders in perfectly competitive markets have equal access...

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Ghana integrated to the world economy: Focus on Ghana-UK-Germany trade linkage model

Sarpong, Daniel Bruce - 1998

In this study of Ghana integrated to the world economy, we focus primarily on Ghana-UK-Germany trade axis partly … because of Ghana's relative dependence on the EU for her international trade. The study employs „representative“ country … the EU in particular influence Ghana's policy goals of GDP and bilateral export growth, the nominal current account and …

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Real wages and labour productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871-1938: a unified approach to the international comparison of living standards

Broadberry, Stephen; Burhop, Carsten - 2009

Throughout the period 1871-1938, the average British worker was better off than the average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For the aggregate economy, the real wage gap was about the same as the labour productivity gap, but again there were important...

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General Human Capital and Employment Adjustment in the Great Depression: Apprentices and Journeymen in UK Engineering

Hart, Robert A. - 2003

The relationship between training and firm-level employment adjustment given an unanticipated fall in product demand has been central to human capital theory. The most cataclysmic negative output shock occurred in 1929/30. At this time, easily the most important source of United Kingdom general...

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Resolving the Anglo-German industrial productivity puzzle, 1895-1935: a response to Professor Ritschl

Broadberry, Stephen; Burhop, Carsten - 2008

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The end of destitution

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 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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Real wages, working time, and the great depression: What does micro evidence tell us?

Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 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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Extreme divorce: The managerial revolution in UK companies before 1914

Foreman-Peck, James; Hannah, Leslie - 2011

We present the first broadly representative study for any early twentieth century economy of the extent to which quoted company ownership was already divorced from managerial control. In the 337 largest, independent, UK companies in the Investor's Year Book (those with £1m or more share capital...

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Testing Wagner's law at different stages of economic development: A historical analysis of five Western European countries

Kuckuck, Jan - 2012

Using historical data, we test the validity of Wagner's law of increasing state activity at different stages of economic development for five industrialized European countries: the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Italy. In order to investigate the coherence between Wagner's law and...

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