作者:Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman
作者:Bowdoin College
摘要:I examine the evolution of conflict and cooperation during economic growth by analyzing civil disputes in New South wales between 1860 and 1900. Disputes per capita fell over time and the proportion of cases settled before trial increased, but patterns varied across Locations and types of disputes. Economic conflicts were likelier to be settled than personal disputes, and the fraction of cases settled was significantly lower in frontier areas and in districts without access to transportation. ...
作者:University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University System of Ohio; Bowling Green State University
作者:Vanderbilt University
摘要:I use retrospective work histories from a unique dataset to follow workers in six cities through occupational, industrial, and geographic moves, thereby characterizing aspects of black economic mobility during the 1940s that cannot be viewed through the Census data. Relatively few migrants were drawn directly from the southern agricultural sector. Black occupational upgrades were larger than white upgrades on average but black upgrades were smaller than those of observationally similar whites....
作者:University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst