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(manufacturers, merchants) are most active in lobbying for industrialization. Third, industrial concentration increases progressive … lobbying for industrialization in the British data. …
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(manufacturers, merchants) are most active in lobbying for industrialization. Third, industrial concentration increases progressive … lobbying for industrialization in the British data. …
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(manufacturers, merchants) are most active in lobbying for industrialization. Third, industrial concentration increases progressive … lobbying for industrialization in the British data. …
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time. Yet we know remarkably little about why industrialization occurred so much earlier in some parts of the world than in … industrialization probabilities. The paper also explores the availability of nutrition for poorer segments of society. We examine the … industrialization. Simulations using parameter values for other countries show that Britain's early escape was only partly due to chance …
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Many theories link urbanization with industrialization; in partic- ular, with the production of tradable (and typically …
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Many theories link urbanization with industrialization; in particular, with the production of tradable (and typically … manufactured) goods. We document that the expected relationship between urbanization and the level of industrialization is not …
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This paper analyzes a stylized small open economy that consists of two tradable output-producing sectors: a manufacturing sector and a (mainly tourism-related) services sector. Assuming sectoral differences based on stylized facts, we explore the impact of higher labor standards in the...
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Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...
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first part, we describe crucial dimensions of industrialization in the region - its extent, its historical trajectory, and …
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It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However, evidence suggests that basic manufacturing industry is stagnant. This paper proposes a mechanism that ties these two trends together. A big-push type of model, featuring...
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