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Structural Change and the Growth Contribution of Services: How Motion Pictures Industrialized US Spectator Entertainment

Bakker, Gerben - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This paper examines the effect of a new technology on a labour-intensive service. Comparing primal and dual TFP-growth with final-year social savings, we find that, between 1900 and 1938, motion pictures increased entertainment output (measured in spectator-hours) by at least nine percent...

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Origins of Catch-up Failure: Comparative Productivity Growth in the Hapsburg Empire, 1870-1910

Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This paper examines patterns of structural change and labour productivity growth in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire. Using shift-share analysis and a set of basic measures to account for the contribution of physical and human capital growth, it seeks to address three questions:...

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The Engendered Spaces in the Villageat the Edge of the Capital:A Case Study of Al Gharaza/Sudan

Badri, Balghis; Knuth, Hardine - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / … - 2008

This research is the outcome of fieldwork undertaken between November 2002 and 2003 inAl Gharaza village part of … value create a siege binding women spaces within the village and impacton their use of time: education is an important force … that manages to crack the siege and openup to women some public space within the village. Outside forces for development …

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