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Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa
McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Zeufack, Albert G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These employment gains have been … accompanied by: (i) large increases in the number of small manufacturing firms; (ii) limited employment gains in large firms; and … (iii) robust labor productivity growth in Africa's large firms. Limited employment growth in Africa's large manufacturing …
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Enterprising America : businesses, banks, and credit markets in historical perspective
Collins, William J. (contributor);  … - 2015
Introduction / William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo -- Business organization and internal governance. Revisiting American exceptionalism: democracy and the regulation of corporate governance: the case of nineteenth-century Pennsylvania in comparative context / Naomi R. Lamoreaux -- Corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381927
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Industrialization and health in historical perspective
Steckel, Richard H. (contributor) - 1999 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001511996
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Structural Transformation and Value Change : The British Abolitionist Movement
Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...
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Industrial Policy and the Great Divergence
Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy during the long 19th century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. We show that states deployed a vast variety of different policies aimed at, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization....
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Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era : Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe
Steckel, Richard H. - 2001
This essay places the debate over human welfare during industrialization in the context of very long-term economic developments by examining an important aspect of living standards--health and nutrition--since the Middle Ages. I use average stature determined from military records along with a...
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Do Federal Programs Affect Internal Migration? The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Mobility During the Great Depression
Fishback, Price V. - 2001
** Revised version 2005** <p> Using a recently-uncovered data set that describes over 30 federal New Deal spending, loan, and mortgage insurance programs across all U.S. counties from 1933 to 1939, this paper empirically examines the New Deal's impact on inter-county migration from 1930 to 1940. We...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470441
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Could the U.S. Iron Industry Have Survived Free Trade After the Civil War?
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2000
An unresolved question concerning post-Civil War U.S. industrialization is the degree to which import tariffs protected domestic manufacturers from foreign competition. This paper considers the impact of import tariffs on the domestic pig iron industry, the basic building block of the entire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471127
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Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England : New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses
Steckel, Richard H. - 2000
This paper assembles new data and new methods for studying wealth inequality trends in industrializing America. Records of household heads from the census matched with real and personal property tax records for Massachusetts reveal that the Theil entropy measure of inequality approximately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471260
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Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run
Jones, Charles I. - 1999
This paper studies a growth model that is able to match several key facts of economic history. For thousands of years, the average standard of living seems to have risen very little, despite increases in the level of technology and large increases in the level of the population. Then, after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471409