Showing 1 - 10 of 848
The emergence and evolution of modern science since the 17th century has led to three major breakthroughs in the human condition. The first, the Industrial Revolution, started in the late 18th century and is based chiefly on developments associated with the rise of the natural sciences. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026088
cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of … positive social security tax. In the model social security emerges and is sustained over time as a political and economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759906
industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the … Industrial Revolution. -- Human capital ; industrialization ; Prussian economic history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003916475
math tests, have larger test score gains over time, have fewer absences and disciplinary incidents, are less likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526689
the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306216
and a unique rate of diffusion throughout the world. Suppose too that initially all countries are fairly closely bunched … follower countries in the various parts of the world fall in line in a similar geographic order. The result will be … section ; time series ; economic growth ; life expectancy ; diffusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730828
In this paper we examine the dynamic contributions of capital accumulation, globalisation, and financialisation to the functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and disclose the dramatic upward trend in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717716
various effects across the world. We highlight three general insights that emerge from this literature. First, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239065
This paper analyzes the determinants of the labor-capital split in national income for 20 countries since the late 1800s. Our main identification strategy focuses on unique historical quasi-experimental events: i) the introduction of universal suffrage, ii) close election wins of left-wing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210389
I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347148