Boomtowns: Local Shocks and Inequality in 1920s California
01/03/2022
Abstract: The 1920s in the United States were a time of high income and wealth growth and rising inequality, up to the peak in 1929.
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Abstract: The 1920s in the United States were a time of high income and wealth growth and rising inequality, up to the peak in 1929.
Abstract: We estimate the short- and long-run local labor market impacts of the large increase in U.S. imports and exports that occurred over the 1970s.
Abstract: This chapter written for the Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy argues that you cannot understand the history of globalization without taking political factors
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