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Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia 劳动胁迫、财政现代化和国家能力：殖民时期印度尼西亚的证据

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101632

Mark Hup

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Family first: Defining, constructing, and applying historical patent families 家族第一：定义、构建和应用历史专利族

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101627

David E. Andersson , Matti La Mela , Fredrik Tell

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(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money (实物）中世纪的工资和劳资关系：不是（全部）为了钱

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101626

Jordan Claridge , Vincent Delabastita , Spike Gibbs

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Elite persistence and inequality in the Danish West Indies, 1760–1914 1760-1914 年丹麦西印度群岛的精英持续与不平等现象

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101636

Stefania Galli , Dimitrios Theodoridis , Klas Rönnbäck

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Access to kin, economic stress, and late-life mortality in North Orkney, Scotland, 1851–1911 1851-1911 年苏格兰北奥克尼的亲属关系、经济压力和晚年死亡率

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101622

Julia A. Jennings

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Skill, race, and wage inequality in British Tanganyika 英属坦噶尼喀的技能、种族和工资不平等

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101625

Sascha Klocke

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Colonial legacies and wealth inequality in Kenya 肯尼亚的殖民遗产与财富不平等

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101623

Rebecca Simson

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Corporations and partnerships: Factory productivity in late Imperial Russia 公司与伙伴关系：帝国晚期俄罗斯的工厂生产力

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-08-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101621

Nikita Lychakov

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Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858–2018 英格兰和威尔士的种族财富不平等，1858-2018 年

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101617

Neil Cummins

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Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony 生育率对短期经济压力的反应：过渡前殖民地的价格波动和财富冲击

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101620

Jeanne Cilliers , Martine Mariotti , Igor Martins

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