Between 1800 and 1860, the United States became the preeminent world supplier of cotton as output increased sixty …-fold. Technological changes, including the introduction of improved cotton varieties, contributed significantly to this growth. Measured … output per worker in the cotton sector rose four-fold and large regional differences emerged. By 1840, output per worker in …

dynamic approach. Drawing on the records of 142 plantations with 509 crops years, we show that the average daily cotton … picking rate increased about four-fold between 1801 and 1862. We argue that the development and diffusion of new cotton … South's preeminence in the world cotton market, the pace of westward expansion, and the importance of indigenous …

We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers …. Using detailed operational, financial, and ownership data from the Japanese cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last … century, we find a more nuanced picture than the straightforward "higher productivity buys lower productivity" story commonly …

estimates. To assess the importance of these assumptions, we examine two natural experiments: the recession in cotton textile … adjusting for migration, we find that mortality increased during the cotton recession, but was largely unaffected by the coal …

efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after controlling for rug specifications. Second, when …

care productivity, we analyze longitudinal data on the medical expenditures and health outcomes of the vast majority of …-profit hospitals have important spillover benefits for medical productivity …

This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service-producing firms in the … productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first effect can be understood as the re-assignment of offshore … productive tasks to immigrant workers. The second can be seen as a productivity or cost cutting effect due to immigration, and …

firms and reductions in earnings per worker. Productivity gains arise mainly from an accelerated exit of less productive …