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Impact of industrialization on relative female survival : evidence from trade policies
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2012
This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son … mechanisms through which industrialization might have affected relative survival of daughters. We find a significant increase in …
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
; geographical isolation ; economic development ; agriculture ; industrialization … new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … economic growth. The theory thus contributes to the understanding of the advent of divergence and overtaking in the process of …
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The impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Wiersma, Quint - 2020
This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power. We estimate the prevalence and intensity of firm-level price-cost markups and either wage markups or wage markdowns. We take the dependence between these model-consistent measures of product and...
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Modernization of agriculture and long-term growth
Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2010
from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153621
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Clans, guilds, and markets : apprenticeship institutions and growth in the pre-industrial economy
De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias; Mokyr, Joel - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...
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Lobbying for industrialization : theory and evidence
Veselov, Dmitriy; Yarkin, Alexander - 2024
(manufacturers, merchants) are most active in lobbying for industrialization. Third, industrial concentration increases progressive … lobbying for industrialization in the British data. …
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The importance of specification choices when analyzing sectoral productivity gaps
Merfeld, Joshua D.; Brummund, Peter - 2021
A consistent finding in the development literature is that average non-farm labor productivity is higher than average farm labor productivity. These differences in average productivity are sometimes used to promote policies which advance the non-farm sector. In this paper, we analyze the...
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Welfare in models of trade with heterogeneous firms
Janiak, Alexandre (contributor) - 2008
I illustrate that the welfare improvement property of the Melitz model is due to the shape of the aggregate labor demand curve, which slopes upwards. By slightly changing some assumptions in the model, this curve may have a negative slope. In this case, increases in aggregate productivity result...
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Brain drain and its determinants : a major issue for small states
Beine, Michel (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states' overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...
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National champion versus foreign takeover
Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2007
We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may not be prone to "economic patriotism". A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597575