Labor market issues are reviewed in terms of mobility and policy resulting from
transportation improvements. Research on Meso level regional adjustment versus micro …

Average annual earnings calculated from the census of manufactures are used to extend
previous research on labor market integration in the United States. In contrast to earlier …

The slow growth of the Spanish economy over the period 1860-1936 has often been
explained by the poor performance of agriculture, especially labour's delay in leaving the …

How have modern labour markets developed? Both labour economists and economic
historians agree that it is necessary to look at labour markets in their historical context …

Interindustry factor mobility is a crucial determinant of the income-distribution effects of
exogenous changes in relative commodity prices. This examination of interindustry variation …

Introduction Migrant workers in China are migrants from the rural to the urban areas who
usually work in the cities and return to the countryside after a certain period. Due to China's …

Current debate on the impact and assimilation of immigrants into the American labor market
sounds remarkably like the debate which eventually triggered the imposition of the quotas in …

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the spread of railroad and telegraph
networks in the United States and Europe, the introduction of steamships on transatlantic …

Problems of access to physician services have arisen in Canada at a time when physician
hours of work have been undergoing important changes. This study investigates the …

A History of American State and Local Economic Development relates the history of
American local and state economic development from 1790 to 2000. This multi-variable …