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Doepke, Matthias - 2015

success once industrialization transforms the economic landscape …

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Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization

Franck, Raphael - 2016

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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The Labor Supply and Retirement Behavior of China's Older Workers and Elderly in Comparative Perspective

Giles, John - 2011

This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over-45 population and, for perspective, places them in the context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many developing countries, China can be characterized as...

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Samuelson's Contributions to Population Theory and Overlapping Generations in Economics

Lee, Ronald D. - 2019

Paul Samuelson made a series of important contributions to population theory for humans and other species, evolutionary theory, and the theory of age structured life cycles in economic equilibrium and growth. The work is highly abstract but much of it was intended to illuminate issues of...

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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 …-shape relationship between industrialization and GDP per capita is consistent with (premature) de-industrialization. Technological change …

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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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Homeownership of Immigrants in France : Selection Effects Related to International Migration Flows

Gobillon, Laurent - 2015

We investigate the difference in homeownership rates between natives and first-generation immigrants in France, and how this difference evolves over the 1975-1999 period, by using a large longitudinal dataset. We find that the homeownership gap is large and has increased. Entries into the...

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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women

Heath, Rachel - 2014

We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...

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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy

de la Croix, David - 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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The Effects of Immigration Quotas on Wages, the Great Black Migration, and Industrial Development

Xie, Bin - 2017

This paper exploits the exogenous and differential immigrant supply shocks caused by the immigration quota system in the 1920s to identify the causal effects of the immigration restriction on the US manufacturing wages, the Great Migration, and industrial production between 1920 and 1930. I find...

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