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Foreign Ownership and Employment Growth in Indonesian Manufacturing
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2010
Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations.We examine employment … growth in Indonesia in a large panel of plants between 1975 and 2005, and especially in plants taken over by foreign owners …
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Trade and the Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution
Lucas, Robert E. - 2012
A model is proposed to describe the evolution of real GDPs in the world economy that is intended to apply to all open economies. The five parameters of the model are calibrated using the Sachs-Warner definition of openness and time-series and cross-section data on incomes and other variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755350
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758155
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Trade, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2010
Technological change was unskilled-labor-biased during the early Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but is skill-biased today. This fact is not embedded in extant unified growth models. We develop a model of the transition to sustained economic growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760113
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The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security
Caucutt, Elizabeth M. - 2010
During the period from 1880 to 1950, publicly managed retirement security programs became an important part of the social fabric in most advanced economies. In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. We describe a model economy in which demographics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760436
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Foreign Direct Investment as a Catalyst for Industrial Development
Markusen, James R. - 2010
How does an FDI project affect local firms in the same industry? Competition in thequot; product and factor markets tends to reduce profits of local firms, but linkage effects to supplierquot; industries may reduce input costs and raise profits. This paper develops an analytical frameworkquot;...
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The Industrialization of South America Revisited : Evidence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, 1890-2010
della Paolera, Gerardo - 2018
We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia since the early twentieth century. We uncover variation across countries and over time that the literature on industrialization had overlooked. Rather than providing a single...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926416
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Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions : The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence
Desmet, Klaus - 2018
A market-size-only theory of industrialization cannot explain why England developed nearly two centuries before China. One shortcoming of such a theory is its exclusive focus on producers. We show that once we incorporate the incentives of factor suppliers' organizations such as craft guilds,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916601
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Trade, Technology, and the Great Divergence
O'Rourke, Kevin - 2019
Why did per capita income divergence occur so dramatically during the 19th century, rather than at the outset of the Industrial Revolution? How were some countries able to reverse this trend during the globalization of the late 20th century? To answer these questions, this paper develops a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872313
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Coal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution
Hanlon, William Walker - 2016
employment growth over this period. Moreover, a counterfactual analysis suggests that plausible improvements in coal use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977623