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By the early 1960s, American manufacturers were already looking to relocate production from Detroit due to high local taxes and wages (J Battista, May 2024)
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The Protestant Reformation did less harm to the network of Protestant universities and their individual importance within that network than to Catholic ones, which experienced a reduction in connectivity and subsequent decline in significance. (CEPR, July 2024)
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Both American men’s and women’s paid and unpaid working hours in industry fell when the labor force began to transition away from agriculture. But later phase of structural change, the decline of manufacturing and rise of services, had different impacts on work based on gender. (CEPR, July 2024)
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U.S. cities exposed to a larger increase in female federal workers during WWI saw persistently higher female labor force participation in the public sector, as well as modest increases in private sector labor force participation suggestive of spill-overs. (A. Aneja, S. Farina, G. Xu, June 2024)
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