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作者:University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; National Bureau of Economic Research; Northwestern University
摘要:This article examines the effects of state-level legal innovations governing labor disputes in the late 1800s, This was a period of legal ferment in which worker organizations and employers actively lobbied state governments for changes in the rules governing labor disputes, Cross-state heterogeneity in the legal environment provides an unusual opportunity to investigate the effects of these laws, We use a unique data set with information on 12,965 strikes to show that most of these law change...
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作者:University of California System; University of California Davis
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作者:Yeshiva University
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作者:Universidade de Brasilia
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作者:Franklin & Marshall College
摘要:Recent work by Robert Putnam has revived a contentious debate about the role of culture in Italian regional disparities. Southern Italy is argued to have been locked in an impoverishing, no-trust equilibrium. This article explores an apparent exception to Putnam's historical evidence: the South's late-nineteenth-century cooperative banks (banche popolari). Econometric investigation reveals important differences in the strategy and performance of these banks in North and South during the crucia...
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作者:Ball State University; University System of Ohio; University of Akron
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作者:University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
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作者:Carleton College
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作者:Burnette, J
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作者:Queens University - Canada; University of Hull; University of Rochester; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要:John Stuart Mill's comment that the British Caribbean was really a part of the British domestic economy, because almost all its trade was with British buyers and sellers, is used to make a new assessment of the importance of the eighteenth-century slave systems to British industrialization. If the value added and strategic linkages of the sugar industry are compared to those of other British industries, it is apparent that sugar cultivation and the slave trade were not particularly large, nor ...