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Productivity Growth and the Regional Dynamics of Antebellum Southern Development
Olmstead, Alan L. - 2010
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 …
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Learning-by-Producing and the Geographic Links between Invention and Production : Experience from the Second Industrial Revolution
Sutthiphisal, Dhanoos - 2010
both emerging (electrical equipment and supplies) and maturing (shoes and textiles) industries, the geographic association …
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Technical Progress in U.S. Manufacturing Sectors, 1948-1973 : an Application of Lie Groups
Sato, Ryuzo - 2010
The purpose of this paper is to apply the theory of Lie transformation groups as developed by the first author, and derive a testable model of production and technical change. The econometric model is then applied to data derived by F. Gollop and D. Jorgenson for U.S. manufacturing industries...
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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, it and Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas - 2015
-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …
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Patent Pools and the Direction of Innovation - Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry
Lampe, Ryan - 2014
Patent pools allow a group of firms to combine their patents as if they were a single firm. Theoretical models predict that pools encourage innovation in pool technologies, albeit at the cost of innovation in substitutes. Empirical evidence is scarce because modern pools are too recent to allow...
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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution : Incentives and Institutions
Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2014
Enlightenment culture. Finally, patterns differ for the textile sector; therefore, any inferences from textiles about the whole …
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Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2014
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...
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Luddites and the Demographic Transition
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2010
Technological change was unskilled-labor-biased during the early Industrial Revolution, but is skill-biased today. This is not embedded in extant unified growth models. We develop a model which can endogenously account for these facts, where factor bias reflects profit-maximizing decisions by...
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Factor Endowments and the Returns to Skill : New Evidence from the American Past
Kaboski, Joseph P. - 2010
The existing literature on skill-biased technical change has not considered how the technological endowment itself plays a role in the returns to skill. This paper constructs a simple model of skill biased technical change which highlights the role that resource endowments play in the returns to...
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A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Critical Transitions
Alston, Lee J. - 2016
Critical transitions for a country are historical periods when the powerful organizations in a country shift from one set of beliefs about how institutions (the formal and informal rules of the game) will affect outcomes to a new set of beliefs. Critical transitions can lead a country toward...
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