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Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing

Boehm, Christoph E. - 2019

U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …

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Characteristics of Foreign-Owned Firms in British Manufacturing

Griffith, Rachel - 2003

This paper describes the characteristics of manufacturing establishments in Britain over the period 1980 to 1996, paying particular attention to differences between establishments of different ownership nationalities. The findings suggest that establishments that are always foreign-owned have...

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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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The Spread of Manufacturing to the Poor Periphery 1870---2007

Bénétrix, Agustín S. - 2012

This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We find that although the roots of rapid peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th...

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Merger movements in American industry 1895 - 1956

Nelson, Ralph L. - 1959

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Two Views of the British Industrial Revolution

Temin, Peter - 1996

There are two views of the British Industrial Revolution in the literature today. The more traditional description, represented by the views of Ashton and Landes, sees the Industrial Revolution as a broad change in the British economy and society. This broad view of the Industrial Revolution has...

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Debt into Growth : How Sovereign Debt Accelerated the First Industrial Revolution

Ventura, Jaume - 2015

Why did the country that borrowed the most industrialize first? Earlier research has viewed the explosion of debt in 18th century Britain as either detrimental, or as neutral for economic growth. In this paper, we argue instead that Britain's borrowing boom was beneficial. The massive issuance...

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Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution

Heblich, Stephan; Redding, Stephen; Voth, Hans-Joachim - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Did overseas slave-holding by Britons accelerate the Industrial Revolution? We provide theory and evidence on the contribution of slave wealth to Britain's growth prior to 1835. We compare areas of Britain with high and low exposure to the colonial plantation economy, using granular data on...

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Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan

Branstetter, Lee; Chen, Jong-rong; Glennon, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Does the offshoring of production degrade or enhance the innovative capabilities of manufacturing firms? We contribute … products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … evidence of a second-order positive effect of offshoring on the levels of innovation--particularly product innovation--in other …

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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States

Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …

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