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Zoning and Segregation in Urban Economic History
Shertzer, Allison; Twinam, Tate; Walsh, Randall P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent work has argued that zoning is responsible for racial segregation, disparities in public goods provision, growing regional inequality, and exploding housing costs in productive areas. However, the slow-moving nature of land regulation's effects suggests a crucial need for historical...
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Could the U.S. Iron Industry Have Survived Free Trade After the Civil War?
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2000
An unresolved question concerning post-Civil War U.S. industrialization is the degree to which import tariffs protected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471127
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Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run
Jones, Charles I. - 1999
This paper studies a growth model that is able to match several key facts of economic history. For thousands of years, the average standard of living seems to have risen very little, despite increases in the level of technology and large increases in the level of the population. Then, after...
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The Rise of the Engineer : Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution
Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Why was the Industrial Revolution successful at generating sustained growth? Some have argued that there was a fundamental change in the way that new technology was developed during this period, but evidence for this argument remains largely anecdotal. This paper provides direct quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938720
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Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa
McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Zeufack, Albert G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Manufacturing has made an important contribution to raising living standards in many parts of the world. Concerns about premature deindustrialization have made some observers skeptical about the potential for manufacturing to play this role in Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has...
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Productivity Growth in Manufacturing During Early Industrialization : Evidence from the American Northeast, 1820 to 1860
Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 1985
during this stage of industrialization, and that much of its early productivity growth can be explained by changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477395
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Investment in Fixed and Working Capital During Early Industrialization : Evidence From U.S. Manufacturing Firms
Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 1984
investment during early industrialization. Although several manufacturing industries, such as cotton textiles, depart from the … per unit of labor is also presented, serving to undercut the notion that the early period of industrialization was based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477705
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The Relative Productivity Hypothesis of Industrialization : The American Case, 1820-1850
Goldin, Claudia; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1981
. Industrialization in the Northeast was substantially powered during these decades by female and child labor, who comprised about 45% of … hypothesis of early industrialization is that such development proceeds first in areas whose agriculture, for various reasons … develop seven propositions relating to the process of early industrialization. Data from two early censuses of manufactures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478393
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Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth : Evidence from Japan’s Early Industrialization
Braguinsky, Serguey - 2020
We explore how firms grow by adding products. In contrast to most earlier work on the topic, our conceptual and empirical framework allows for separate treatment of product innovation (vertical differentiation) and diversification (horizontal differentiation). The market context is Japan's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479189
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Trade, Technology, and the Great Divergence
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 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/10012479692