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The World Technology Frontier
Caselli, Francesco; Coleman, Wilbur John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
substitutes. We find that there is a skill biasin cross-country technology differences. Higher-income countries use skilled … labormore efficiently than lower-income countries, while they use unskilled labor relativelyand, possibly, absolutely less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305071
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A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution
Caselli, Francesco; Ventura, Jaume - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
This paper introduces various sources of consumer heterogeneity in one-sector representative consumer (RC) growth models and develops tools to study the evolution of the distribution of consumptions, assets and incomes.[...]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305094
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A brave new geography of the Internet age? : the determinants of telecommunications growth in historical perspective
Perkins, Richard (contributor); Neumayer, Eric (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003434179
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Bairoch Revisited. Tariff Structure and Growth in the Late 19th Century
Tena-Junguito, Antonio - Universidad Carlos III <Madrid> / Departamento de Economía; … - 2009
results show that income, factor endowment, and policy independence are important to explain regional asymmetries between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870482
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Regional Income Dispersion and Market Potential in the Late Nineteenth Century Hapsburg Empire
Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
for its 22 major regions. The paper argues that regional income differentials were significantly larger, that intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870545
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The Triumph and Denouement of the British Fiscal State: Taxation For the Wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815
O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
revenues. However, specific tax rates (which at that time were the norm) implied that the state’s real income would fall in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870561
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Trade, Convergence and Globalisation: the dynamics of change in the international income distribution, 1950-1998
Epstein, Philip; Howlett, Peter; Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
reach the levels of income enjoyed by the richest nations.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870584
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Income distribution and convergence: the European experience, 1870-1992
Epstein, Philip; Howlett, Peter; Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
decade. Galor identified three forms of long run percapita income convergence: absolute convergence, whereby convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870759
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The Spanish Empire and Its Legacy: Fiscal Re-distribution and PoliticalConflict in Colonial and Post-Colonial Spanish AmericaThe Spanish Empire and Its Legacy: Fiscal Re-distributi...
Grafe, Regina; Irigoin, Maria Alejandra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
As part of an endeavour to explain the divergence in incomes per capita between North and South America new institutional economics (NIE) and economic history have attempted in recent years to realize the potential effort for illumination derivable from comparisons of the heritage of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870783
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Mapping Poverty in Agar Town: Economic Conditions Prior to the Development of St. Pancras Station In 1866
Swensen, Steven P. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
and overall income available to households within thedisplaced area. This information is used to produce a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870937