作者:University of London; University College London; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
作者:State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of Calgary
作者:Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna; Copenhagen Business School; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
作者:University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
作者:University of Lausanne; Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po)
作者:University of Kentucky; Auburn University System; Auburn University
摘要:We study labor earnings inequality during the Great Depression using establishment-level information from the Census of Manufactures (COM). Inequality, as measured by the interquartile range in earnings per worker, declines by 10 log points between 1929 and 1933. However, by 1935, this difference has recovered to its 1929 level. In a decomposition, this decline and then rise in inequality is entirely explained by returns to observable factors, most notably the skill premium and regional differ...
作者:New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi
摘要:We study the economic and political determinants of the Southern secession movement of 1860/61. While economic historians emphasize the importance of slavery to the South's economy as the primary factor behind the movement, we demonstrate the important role that political inequality among whites played in facilitating secession. In particular, secession was decided in state conventions, which allowed secessionists to exploit biases to representation and may have been pivotal in Alabama and Geo...
作者:University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; Federal Reserve System - USA