Abstract This article is based on a bibliographical data set of over 2,600 history textbooks from the post-1945 Soviet Union and eleven out its fifteen successor states, including books international, national, regional or local history. Among these, it analyzes illustrations used in 450 that cover period Second World War. Arguing against reduction history-related visuals to “narrative,” this s...

This paper estimates the effect of capital imports on the wages of a large, representative sample of Hungarian machine operators. Using linked employer-employee data and detailed productand firm-level import data, we match the precise occupation description of each worker to the equipment imported by their employers. We find that machine operators working on imported machines earn 16 percent mo...