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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?
Ghani, Ejaz - 2012
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …
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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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Industrialization and Urbanization : Did the Steam Engine Contribute to the Growth of Cities in the United States?
Kim, Sukkoo - 2005
Industrialization and urbanization are seen as interdependent processes of modern economic development. However, the … power source by manufacturers during industrialization contributed to urbanization. While the data indicate that steam … contribute substantially to urbanization …
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Industrialization and Urbanization in Nineteenth Century America
Atack, Jeremy; Margo, Robert A.; Rhode, Paul W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
likely for other economies that experienced historical industrialization and urbanization …
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Sprouting Cities : How Rural America Industrialized
Eckert, Fabian; Juneau, John; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the joint process of urbanization and industrialization in the US economy between 1880 and 1940. We show that … only a small share of aggregate industrialization is accounted for by the relocation of workers from remote rural areas to … transforming their sectoral structure. Most industrialization within counties occurred through the emergence of new "factory …
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Reversal of Fortune : Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
Acemoglu, Daron - 2001
relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for … industrialization opportunities …
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The Effects of Urban Concentration on Economic Growth
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2000
The paper examines whether there is a significant relationship between economic growth and the degree of urban concentration, as measured by primacy, or the share of the largest metro area in national urban population. Is there reason to believe many countries have excessive primacy and how...
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Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616646
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Urban Sprawl and Social Capital : Evidence from Indonesian Cities
Civelli, Andrea; Gaduh, Arya; Rothenberg, Alexander D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use detailed data from Indonesian cities to study how variation in density within urban areas affects social capital. For identification, we instrument density with soil characteristics, and control for community averages of observed characteristics. Under plausible assumptions, these...
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Urbanization and its Discontents
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2020
American cities have experienced a remarkable renaissance over the past 40 years, but in recent years, cities have experienced considerable discontent. Anger about high housing prices and gentrification has led to protests. The urban wage premium appears to have disappeared for less skilled...
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