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The Rise of the Engineer : Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution
Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Why was the Industrial Revolution successful at generating sustained growth? Some have argued that there was a fundamental change in the way that new technology was developed during this period, but evidence for this argument remains largely anecdotal. This paper provides direct quantitative...
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Openness to Trade and the Spread of Industrialization : Evidence from Canada during the First Era of Globalization
Jaworski, Taylor - 2020
industrialization in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that industries and regions more exposed to international trade … controlling for these factors, we find that greater exposure to globalization shaped the pattern of regional industrialization in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481264
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Away from Home and Back : Coordinating (Remote) Workers in 1800 and 2020
Juhász, Réka - 2020
This paper examines the future of remote work by drawing parallels between two contexts: The move from home to factory-based production during the Industrial Revolution and the shift to work from home today. Both are characterized by a similar trade-off: the potential productivity advantage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482469
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When, Where, and Why? Early Industrialization in the Poor Periphery 1870-1940
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010
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 growth accelerated there over these seven critical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462312
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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
Bogart, Daniel - 2010
During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462955
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Luddites and the Demographic Transition
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2008
, and the transition to skill-biased technological change. The simulated model tracks British industrialization in the 18th …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464163
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Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution
Clark, Gregory - 2008
For two decades, the consensus explanation of the British Industrial Revolution has placed technological change and the supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464570
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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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Immigration, Industrial Revolution and Urban Growth in the United States, 1820-1920 : Factor Endowments, Technology and Geography
Kim, Sukkoo - 2007
Industrial revolution is fundamentally linked with the rise of factories and the decline of skilled artisans in manufacturing. Most scholars agree that factories as compared to artisan shops were intensive in unskilled labor. Indeed, the hallmark of the early factories is the utilization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465756
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The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security
Caucutt, Elizabeth M. - 2007
During the period from 1880 to 1950, publicly managed retirement security programs became an important part of the social fabric in most advanced economies. In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. We describe a model economy in which demographics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465802