Showing 1 - 10 of 96,282
suggest the onset of sustained economic growth well before the beginnings of industrialization, which set in during the third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665576
Our purpose here is to challenge the "big-bang" approach to economic history in which some alleged institutional imposition - a deus machine - is claimed to launch a series of new economic behaviors. This so-called prime mover is then carried forward by the inexorable forces of path dependency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010362250
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232798
Industrialization and the rise of nationalism were the two major developments in Germany before the World War I. A … novel county-level dataset reveals that industrialization and nationalism measured by membership in the "Kriegervereine …, I find strong evidence for a causal impact of industrialization on nationalism. In order to detect possible mechanisms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762766
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426665
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212785
This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909983
Between 1890 and 1913, Russian Empire experienced a rapid transition to an industrial economy, catching up with Western countries. Using accidental elements in German settlement locations in Russia 1763-1861, the paper estimates the effects of the more educated Germans in Russia’s industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821148
The allocation of intellectual property rights between firms and employed researchers causes a principal-agent problem between the two parties. We investigate the working contracts of inventors employed by German chemical, pharmaceutical, and electrical engineering firms at the turn of the 20th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014281380