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作者:University of Arizona; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要:The growth of American governments in the twentieth century included large increases in funds for social insurance and public assistance. Social insurance has increased far more than public assistance, so rise in the social insurance state is a far better description of the century than rise in the welfare state. The United States has increased total spending in these areas as much or more as have European countries, but the U.S. spending has relied less heavily on government programs. In the ...
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作者:University of California System; University of California Irvine
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作者:University of California System; University of California Davis; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
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作者:State University of New York (SUNY) System; Farmingdale State College; Queens University Belfast
摘要:For many decades, there were stock exchanges operating in provincial cities across Britain. We analyze why companies listed on these markets and how this changed over time. We find that the provincial exchanges had traditionally been complementary to London, providing a trading venue for smaller regional companies. However, they gradually lost their uniqueness and were increasingly competing with London by listing similar stocks. Much of this change can be explained by shifts in industrial com...
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作者:Brandeis University
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作者:University of California System; University of California Davis
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作者:Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
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作者:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者:Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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作者:University of British Columbia; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR); University of Barcelona
摘要:We exploit the records of a large Toledan hospital to study the compensation of female labor and the gender wage gap in early modern Castile in the context of nursing-a non-gendered, low-skill occupation in which men and women performed the same clearly defined tasks. We employ a robust methodology to estimate the value of in-kind compensation, and show it to constitute a central part of the labor contract, far exceeding subsistence requirements. Patient admissions records are used to measure ...