iPEHD—The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Economic History

Socio-economic database online

The SEDO project develops a platform combining fast access, user freedom, and coherence of the results for presenting complex socio-economic data. As an initial yield, this joint project involving two research actors of Luxembourg, the CEPS/INSTEAD for the content and the CRP-Gabriel Lippman for the technical realization, will deliver on the Net the results of longitudinal surveys about the lif...

Economic History Scott Carson

The Chordate Proteome History Database

The chordate proteome history database (http://ioda.univ-provence.fr) comprises some 20,000 evolutionary analyses of proteins from chordate species. Our main objective was to characterize and study the evolutionary histories of the chordate proteome, and in particular to detect genomic events and automatic functional searches. Firstly, phylogenetic analyses based on high quality multiple sequen...

Immigration in American Economic History.

The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants. Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers. This paper reviews the literatures on historical and contemporary migrant flows, yielding new insights on migrant selection, assimilation of immigrants into US...