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Division of Labor and the Rise of Cities : Evidence from U.S. Industrialization, 1850-1880
Kim, Sukkoo - 2006
Industrial revolution in the United States first took hold in rural New England as factories arose and grew in a handful of industries such as textiles and shoes. However, as factory scale economies rose and factory production techniques were adopted by an ever growing number of industries,...
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Industrialization and Urbanization : Did the Steam Engine Contribute to the Growth of Cities in the United States?
Kim, Sukkoo - 2005
Industrialization and urbanization are seen as interdependent processes of modern economic development. However, the exact nature of their causal relationship is still open to considerable debate. This paper uses firm-level data from the manuscripts of the decennial censuses between 1850 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467479
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Corporation Law and the Shift toward Open Access in the Antebellum United States
Hilt, Eric - 2015
This paper analyses the general incorporation statutes for manufacturing firms adopted by the American states up to 1860. Prior to the enactment of a general law, a business could only incorporate by obtaining a special act of their state legislature; general statutes facilitated incorporation...
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Coordination and information : historical perspectives on the organization of enterprise
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (ed.); Raff, Daniel M. G. (contributor) - 1995
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Inside the business enterprise : historical perspectives on the use of information
Temin, Peter (ed.) - 1991
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2007
States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be positively associated with organizational innovation. Employers … being part of a multi-establishment firm) are more likely to invest in organizational innovation. Investments in human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465497
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Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing : The Role of Computer Investment
Dunne, Timothy - 2000
By exploiting establishment-level data, this paper sheds new light on the source of the changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the last several decades. Based on theoretical work by Caselli (1999) and Kremer and Maskin (1996), we focus on...
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Could Machine Learning be a General Purpose Technology? A Comparison of Emerging Technologies Using Data from Online Job Postings
Goldfarb, Avi; Taska, Bledi; Teodoridis, Florenta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
General purpose technologies (GPTs) push out the production possibility frontier and are of strategic importance to managers and policymakers. While theoretical models that explain the characteristics, benefits, and approaches to create and capture value from GPTs have advanced significantly,...
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Transatlantic Technologies : The Role of ICT in the Evolution of U.S. and European Productivity Growth
Gordon, Robert J. - 2020
consistent with the broader view that ongoing innovation has been less potent in boosting productivity growth compared to earlier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481620
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International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices : The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K
Bartel, Ann - 2007
This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...
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