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Engines of Growth : Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation
Eaton, Jonathan - 1995
present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …
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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution : Incentives and Institutions
Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2011
During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461665
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Innovation Networks in the Industrial Revolution
Rosenberger, Lukas; Hanlon, W. Walker; Hallmann, Carl - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors … worked in technologies that were more central within the innovation network. We offer a new approach for measuring the … innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the late-18th and early-19th century. We show that the network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056202
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Trade, Technology and U.K. Wage Inequality
Haskel, Jonathan - 1999
The U.K. skill premium fell from the 1950s to the late 1970s and then rose very sharply. This paper examines the contributions to these relative wage movements of international trade and technical change. We first measure trade as changes in product prices and technical change as TFP growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471829
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
Hanlon, W. Walker; Heblich, Stephan; Monte, Ferdinando; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How do communication costs affect the production of new ideas and inventions? To answer this question, we study the introduction of the Uniform Penny Post in Great Britain in 1840. This reform replaced the previous system of expensive distance-based postage fees with a uniform low rate of one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210104
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Luddites and the Demographic Transition
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2008
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/10012464163
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International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices : The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K
Bartel, Ann - 2007
This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464988
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The Evolution of Inequality in Productivity and Wages : Panel Data Evidence
Faggio, Giulia - 2007
There has been a remarkable increase in wage inequality in the US, UK and many other countries over the past three decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such as age-gender-skill cells). A generally untested implication of many theories rationalizing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465301
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Short and Long Run Decompositions of OECD Wage Inequality Changes
Edwards, T. Huw - 2002
This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition into the component factors of trade surges in low wage products and technological change that has preoccupied the trade and wages literature. It argues that the length of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469444
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Malthus to Solow
Hansen, Gary D. - 1998
A unified growth theory is developed that accounts for the roughly constant living standards displayed by world economies prior to 1800 as well as the growing living standards exhibited by modern industrial economies. Our theory also explains the industrial revolution, which is the transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471954