We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia … industrialization had overlooked. Rather than providing a single explanation of how specific shocks or policies shaped the … industrialization of the region, our argument is that the timing of the industrial take off was linked to initial conditions, while …

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 …

trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently …, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth in the poor periphery. This paper assess these de-industrialization … divergence between core and periphery. Third, the boom and its de-industrialization impact was only part of the story; growth …

, raising average wages significantly, which in turn facilitated industrialization. We analyze the rise of this first socio …

peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th century, the high point of peripheral industrialization was the 1950 …-1973 period, which saw widespread import- substituting industrialization. This period was also the high point of unconditional …