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This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America …, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial … an early effort to identify the sources underlying the spread of the industrial revolution to the poor periphery …
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Most countries in the periphery specialized in the export of just a handful of primary products for most of their …. Additionally, both effects were asymmetric between Core and Periphery, findings that speak directly to the terms of trade debates …
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On average, the poor European periphery converged on the rich industrial core in the four or five decades prior to … globalization was by far the dominant force accounting for convergence (and divergence) around the periphery. Some exploited it well …
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inflation-prone Periphery Countries that use an exchange rate peg as an anti- inflationary device, when the Center is hit by an … aggregate demand shock. Cooperation in the Periphery is constrained to be symmetric: costs and benefits must be equal for all …. The first is when the constrained cooperative response of the Periphery is a moderate common devaluation while the non …
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manufacturing, but when transport costs fall below a critical value a core-periphery pattern spontaneously forms, and nations that … find themselves in the periphery suffer a decline in real income. At still lower transport costs there is convergence of …
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We use the expansion of the high-speed rail network in Germany as a natural experiment to examine the causal effect of reductions in commuting time between regions on the commuting decisions of workers and their choices regarding where to live and where to work. We exploit three key features in...
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How effective are policies aimed at integrating isolated regions? We answer this question using the construction of a highway system in one of the poorest regions in the United States. With construction starting in 1965, the Appalachian Development Highway System (ADHS) ultimately consisted of...
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This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460439
This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America …, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial … growth accelerated there over this critical century. The precocious poor periphery leaders underwent a surge and more poor …
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In this paper, we examine the correlation between sectoral shocks and border enforcement in the United States. Enforcement of national borders is the main policy instrument the U.S. government uses to combat illegal immigration. The motivation for the exercise is to see whether border...
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