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History versus Expectations: an Empirical Investigation [PDF]

This paper provides the first empirical test of the role of history versus expectations in U.S. urban development. Starting from Paul Krugman's theoretical work in new economic geography, we test whether or not a modern city develops because of either ...
Timothy F. Harris, Yannis M. Ioannides
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Analyzing living conditions of Tomsk physicists' scientific community in the period of social and economic upheaval (1930-1945) [PDF]

, 2000
The article presents the reconstruction of living conditions of Tomsk physicists’ scientific community in the period of social and economic upheaval (1930-1945). The reconstruction is based on published and unpublished sources.
Sorokin, Aleksandr Nikolaevich
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TEMPORAL TRENDS AND PATTERNS IN COVID-19 MORTALITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Economy and Sociology, 2021
Introduction: The Republic of Moldova Ministry of Health releases individual death records of COVID-19 patients on a daily basis since March 18, 2020. It is important to understand the quality of this data and to compare them to medical death certificate
Olga PENINA
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Democracy Under the Tsars? The Case of the Zemstvo [PDF]

The emancipation of the serfs is often viewed as watershed moment in 19th-century Russian history. However, this reform was accompanied by numerous others measures aimed at modernizing the Tsarist economy and society.
Steven Nafziger
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An Overview of Collective Bargaining in the United States [PDF]

, 2014
[Excerpt] American history reflects a long cycle of trade union decline and growth. Analysts routinely predict the death of the labor movement. (Yeselson 2012).
Compa, Lance A
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Imperialism of jackals and lions. The fiscal-military state in Portuguese Africa in the British and French African mirror, c. 1850–1940

Revista de Historia Industrial
We adopt the metaphor of the “jackal” and the “lion” to explore whether variation in geo-political power of metropoles affected fiscal and military capacity building in colonial Africa.
Kleoniki Alexopoulou, Ewout Frankema
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Real wage growth over the business cycle:contractual versus spot markets [PDF]

We study the wage growth of job stayers over the business cycle, and show that wage adjustments within a job spell display significant history dependence. This is at odds with the spot market model, which implies that the wage growth of a worker within a
Bellou, Andriana, Kaymak, Baris
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The mistake of 1937: a general equilibrium anlaysis [PDF]

, 2007
This paper studies a dynamic general equilibrium model with sticky prices and rational expectations in an environment of low interest rates and deflationary pressures.
Eggertsson, Gauti B., Pugsley, Benjamin
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The failure of Algeria’s industrialization strategy, 1967–1989: a new structural economics perspective

Revista de Historia Industrial
Following the theoretical framework of New Structural Economics, this article attempts to explain why Algeria’s industrialization strategy failed over the period 1967–1989.
Amine Haouas, Justin Yifu Lin
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Organizational Issues in the Agrifood Sector: Toward a Comparative Approach [PDF]

This paper outlines a research program comparing the economic organization of agriculture in the United States and European Union. Both have highly developed agricultural sectors but their organizational arrangements vary widely. Comparative analysis not
Claude Ménard, Peter G. Klein
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