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How substitutable are fixed factors in production? evidence from pre-industrial England
Wilde, Joshua - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Whether fixed factors such as land constrain per-capita income growth depends crucially on two variables: the substitutability of fixed factors in production, and the extent to which innovation is biased towards land-saving technologies. This paper attempts to quantify both. Using the timing of...
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Coal Mining, Economic Development, and the Natural Resource Curse
Betz, Mike; Farren, Michael; Lobao, Linda; Partridge, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
. Regulations, first on air, have altered the geography of coal mining, pushing it west from Appalachia. Likewise, technological …Coal mining has a long legacy of providing needed jobs in isolated communities but it is also associated with places …, the economic footprint of coal mining has greatly changed in an era when the industry appears to be on the decline. This …
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Distretti industriali e anelli affini
Tattara, Giuseppe; Volpe, Mario; pitingaro, serafino - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Industrial districts palyed a very important role in the Italian economic development. This paper provides fresh evidence based on microdata (Veneto Worker Histories) and discusses the ambiguities in the district definition, its uncertain boundaries and the development into territorial...
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The evolution of environmental thinking in economics
Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper discusses the development of environmental economics from the Industrial Revolution in Europe to today. Specifically, it comments on the general similarities and differences between the representatives of the schools of economic thought concerning the environment. Among others, the...
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On the Use of Palynological Data in Economic History: New Methods and an Application to Agricultural Output in Central Europe, 0–2000 AD
Izdebski, Adam; Koloch, Grzegorz; Słoczyński, Tymon; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper we introduce a new source of data to economic history: palynological data, i.e. information about pollen grains which are preserved in bottom sediments of various water basins. We discuss how this data is collected and how it should be interpreted; develop new methods for aggregating...
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Wage-stickiness, monetary changes, and real incomes in late-medieval England and the Low Countries, 1300 - 1500: did money matter?
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Bedevilling the ongoing debate about changes in real-incomes in late-medieval western Europe, especially during the so-called ‘Golden Age of the Labourer’, is the very troubling issue of ‘wage-stickiness’. The standard and long-traditional explanation for this supposed ‘Golden Age’...
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Builders’ wages in southern England and the southern Low Countries, 1346 -1500: a comparative study of trends in and levels of real incomes
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The traditional and almost universal method of expressing real wages is by index numbers, according to the formula: RWI = NWI/CPI: i.e., the real wage is the quotient of the nominal (money) wage index divided by the consumer price index, all employing a common base period (here: 1451-75 = 100)....
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Creative accounting in the British Industrial Revolution: Cotton manufacturers and the ‘Ten Hours’ Movement.
Toms, Steven; Shepherd, Alice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper examines an early case of creative accounting, and how, during British industrialization, accounting was enlisted by the manufacturers’ interest to resist demands, led by the ‘Ten hours’ movement, for limiting the working day. In contrast to much of the prior literature, which...
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Deforestation and welfare : evidence from Africa
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
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Population growth and forest sustainability in Africa
Simplice A, Asongu; Brian A, Jingwa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three moment...
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