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Colonization and development: The long-term effect of Russian settlement in the North Caucasus, 1890s–2000s

Natkhov, Timur - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 43 (2015) 1, pp. 76-97

This paper exploits differences in the proportion of Russian settlers in the North Caucasus in the nineteenth century to estimate the effect of colonization on long-term development. The identification strategy relies on the fact that the primary purpose of Russian colonization was to protect...

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Swedish GDP 1620-1800 : stagnation or growth ?

Edvinsson, Rodney Benjamin - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 7 (2013) 1, pp. 37-60

This paper reconstructs an annual volume series of GDP and GDP per capita for Sweden within present borders 1620–1800, extending the annual series that exist from 1800 onwards. Annual fluctuations of GDP are estimated from the annual fluctuations of harvests, which in the nineteenth century...

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Innovation Networks in the Industrial Revolution

Rosenberger, Lukas; Hanlon, W. Walker; Hallmann, Carl - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors worked in technologies that were more central...

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Chapter 25. Inequality, Technology and the Social Contract

Bénabou, Roland - 2005

the flexibility of their production processes to the distribution of workers’ skills. The greater is human capital …

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The wheels of change : technology adoption, millwrights, and persistence in Britain's industrialization

Van Der Beek, Karine; Mokyr, Joel; Sarid, Assaf - 2019

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Catch me if you learn : development-specific education and economic growth

Cerina, Fabio; Manca, Fabio - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 22 (2018) 6, pp. 1652-1694

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Creative capital, information and communication technologies, and economic growth in smart cities

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 28 (2019) 2, pp. 142-155

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Redistributive policies and technology diffusion

Magalhães, Manuela; Sequeira, Tiago Neves - In: The B.E. journal of macroeconomics 19 (2019) 1, pp. 1-23

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Chapter 12. Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part B, (pp. 1043-1171). 2011

A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns to skills and the … supply and demand for skills by assuming two distinct skill groups that perform two different and imperfectly substitutable … shaped by the interactions among worker skills, job tasks, evolving technologies, and shifting trading opportunities. We …

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Skill versus inequality

Özalp, Hüseyin - In: Panoeconomicus 71 (2024) 4, pp. 605-627

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