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The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …
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stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology - be accelerated? Lewis (1954 …) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of industrialization is limited by the rate of capital formation which in turn is … an open economy increases the rate of capital formation and speeds up the pace of industrialization relative to a closed …
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plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …
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industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
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This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … subsequent decades. Nevertheless, early industrialization had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by … that the characteristics that permitted the onset of industrialization, rather than the adoption of industrial technology …
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We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or …
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The industrialization process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate investment decisions. Using the …
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Colonial trade encouraged the colonies to specialise in primary products. Did this prevent in-dustrialisation in the colonies? And did lack of industrialisation, in turn, help to keep the colonies under control? To answer these questions, we examine the impact of the temporary collapse in trade...
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This study explores the impact of industrialization on secondary schooling in 19th century France. As a source of … exogenous variation in industrialization across the French territory, it takes advantage of the openings and closures of mines … that industrialization had a negative but mostly insignificant effect on high-school enrollment. However, industrialization …
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The debate on trade wars and currency wars has re-emerged since the Great recession of 2009. We study the two forms of non-cooperative policies within a single framework. First, we compare the elasticity of trade flows to import tariffs and to the real exchange rate, based on product level data...
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