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Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, Elizabeth J. - 2023

Group 1 metal and chemical industries formed the essential suppliers of British war materials during WW2. Their industrial sectors covered metal manufacture, general and electrical engineering, vehicle production, aircraft production, shipbuilding, metal goods, chemicals and explosives, and...

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The past and future of manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe : ready for industry 4.0?

Naudé, Wim; Surdej, Aleksander; Cameron, Martin - 2019

manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct time periods of industrialization since 1990, and explain the nature of I4 …

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Africa's industrialization prospects : a fresh look

Naudé, Wim; Tregenna, Fiona - 2023

This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to 2018, using various … estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as … China, market size and urbanization; and technological factors such as digital technology adoption. An inverse U …

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Political economy of industrialization and industrial parks in Ethiopia

Kebede, Selamawit G.; Heshmati, Almas - 2023

This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political … used for exploring the role of political economy in Ethiopian industrialization. Different political strategies were … strategies of protectionist import substitution industrialization and the outward strategy of export-oriented industrialization …

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People and machines : a look at the evolving relationship between capital and skill in manufacturing 1860 - 1930 using immigration shocks

Lafortune, Jeanne; Tessada, José A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2015

This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and unskilled workers, and then dramatically increased its...

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Three varieties of Africa's industrial future

Naudé, Wim - 2019

concerned, African countries will in differing degrees experience three varieties of industrialization, all influenced by new … services now perform functions previously expected from manufacturing. A third variety of future industrialization is labelled … "resurgent entrepreneurship-lead industrialization" denoting that some African countries will take part in new and advanced types …

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Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?

Baptist, Simon; Teal, Francis J. - 2015

Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...

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Occupational choice and the spirit of capitalism

Doepke, Matthias (contributor); … - 2007

industrialization transforms the economic landscape. …

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For want of a cup: the rise of tea in England and the impact of water quality on mortality

Antman, Francisca M. - 2022

This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication...

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Imports as product and labor market discipline

Boulhol, Hervé (contributor); … - 2006

This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...

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