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the famous Encyclopédie in mid-18th century France. We show that subscriber density is a strong predictor of city growth … after the onset of French industrialization. Alternative measures of development such as soldier height, disposable income …
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technology of industrialization was adapted to these factor prices and is not profitable in low-wage economies. The cross-over to … known as Cliometrics, and a non-random survey of recent research emphasizing the emerging methodology of the New Economic …
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Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
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Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the U.S. labor market over the 20th century. This essay reviews the...
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The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …
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of early British industrialization supports the thesis that economic advances depend on specialized scientific training … British industrialization, by assessing the backgrounds, education and inventive activity of the major contributors to …
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During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But why was Britain the technological leader? We argue that one hitherto little recognized British advantage was the supply of highly skilled, mechanically able craftsmen who were...
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, and the transition to skill-biased technological change. The simulated model tracks British industrialization in the 18th …
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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...
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The paper explores the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The estimation is over panel datasets of patent grants, and unpatented innovations that were submitted for prizes at the annual industrial fairs of the American Institute of New York, during...
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