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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias - 2007
, which are rooted in the nature of pre-industrial professions, become key determinants of success once industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465739
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Openness to Trade and the Spread of Industrialization : Evidence from Canada during the First Era of Globalization
Jaworski, Taylor - 2020
controlling for these factors, we find that greater exposure to globalization shaped the pattern of regional industrialization in …We use new data on manufacturing in Canada to quantify the impact of globalization on the growth and composition of … industrialization in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that industries and regions more exposed to international trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481264
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Globalization and the Great Divergence : Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2008
trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently …, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth in the poor periphery. This paper assess these de-industrialization … divergence between core and periphery. Third, the boom and its de-industrialization impact was only part of the story; growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464805
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Trade And Industrialisation After Globalisation's 2nd Unbundling : How Building And Joining A Supply Chain Are Different And Why It Matters
Baldwin, Richard - 2011
Revolutionary transformations of industry and trade occurred from 1985 to the late-1990s - the regionalisation of supply chains. Before 1985, successful industrialisation meant building a domestic supply chain. Today, industrialisers join supply chains and grow rapidly because offshored...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460941
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Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution
Juhász, Réka; Sakabe, Shogo; Weinstein, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Japan was unique among non-Western countries in successfully industrializing during the first wave of globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635630
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Measuring ancient inequality
Milanovic, Branko - 2007
"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521497
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Sorting and Long-Run Inequality
Fernandez, Raquel - 2000
Many social commentators have raised concerns over the possibility that increased sorting in a society can lead to greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility, and marital sorting and parameterize the steady state to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471268
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Unequal at Birth : A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight
Costa, Dora L. - 1999
I demonstrate that although socioeconomic differences in birth weight have always been" fairly small in the United States, they have narrowed since the beginning of this century. I argue" that maternal height, and therefore the mother's nutritional status during her growing years accounted for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471643
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For Richer, for Poorer : Bankers' Liability and Risk-taking in New England, 1867-1880
Koudijs, Peter - 2018
We study whether banks are riskier if managers have less liability. We focus on New England between 1867 and 1880 and consider the introduction of marital property laws that limited liability for newly wedded bankers. We find that banks with managers who married after a legal change had more...
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The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon
Dossi, Gaia; Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in mathematics, and that these norms could be transmitted within the family. Using data from the Florida Department of Education combined with birth certificates we uncover important...
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