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Patterns of industrial specialisation in post-Unification Italy
Ciccarelli, Carlo; Proietti, Tommaso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates the patterns of sectoral specialisation in Italian provinces over half a century following the Unification of the country. To this end we propose a multivariate graphical technique named dynamic specialisation biplots. In 1871 specialisation vocations toward the different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004141
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The anti-red shift – to the 'Dark Side': Colour changes in Flemish luxury woollens, 1300 - 1550
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
purchasing power of industrial wages) that only the very rich could afford to buy these textiles: that the principal markets were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789506
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The English cotton spinning industry, 1780–1840, as revealed in the columns of the London Gazette
Solar, Peter M; Lyons, John S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
dissolutions of partnership reported in the London Gazette, 1770–1840. The data show two temporal cycles, peaking in the early to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992046
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Construction in Italy's regions, 1861-1913
Ciccarelli, Carlo; Fenoaltea, Stefano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper presents time-series estimates of construction activity in the regions of post-Unification Italy. Total construction followed very different time paths, reflecting the sharply local cycles in railway construction. Other public works were less idiosyncratic; the boom of the Giolitti...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619558
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Ship building and repairing in Italy, 1861-1913: national and regional time series
Ciccarelli, Carlo; Fenoaltea, Stefano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper presents the first comprehensive national and regional time-series estimates for ship building and repairing in post-Unification Italy. The path of the national aggregate differs markedly from the extant series, which cover merchant new-construction alone. The regional estimates point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621816
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Les industries animales dans l'ouest de la France : les territoires industrielles de Chateau-Renault et Surgères.
Perrin, Cedric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The author of this paper intends to compare two industrial territories from western France: Chateau-Renault and Surgères. Chateau-Renault is a tanning center, and the city of Surgères houses a vast dairy. The industries of both areas deal with products of animal origins deriving from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259354
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A moneylender in Venice: Costantino Bogdano ‘da Patrasso’, c. 1800-44
Pepelasis, Ioanna Sapfo; Tzavara, Angeliki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Research on the practices of the moneylender, a permanent yet shadowy fixture of society, has focused on England in the early modern period. This paper, however, examines the business operations of Costantino Bogdano, a Greek moneylender active in Venice (c. 1800-44). At a time of transition in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112971
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The Industrial Revolution as the Escape from the Malthusian Trap
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649823
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Builders’ wages in southern England and the southern Low Countries, 1346 -1500: a comparative study of trends in and levels of real incomes
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The traditional and almost universal method of expressing real wages is by index numbers, according to the formula: RWI … ascertaining whether changes in nominal (money) wages or changes in the price level were paramount in determining changes in real … wages. But it does not permit us to make any judgements about the levels of real wages and thus does not permit us to make …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616988
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Why did early industrial capitalists suggest minimum wages and social insurance?
Reckendrees, Alfred - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
labour rules regulating working hours and wages. In the 1860s –20 years before Bismarck– they proposed a mandatory pension …
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