We develop a two-region population growth model of economic geography and show that a process of urbanization has a … substantial impact on the evolution of manufacturing real wages. Whereas real wages decline as the population increases when the … not decline prior to the Industrial Revolution in England, despite a historically unprecedented population growth …

countries. Departing from the necessity to predict fertility developments in order to estimate population development … present thesis fills several research gaps in the area of population and economic change with a special focus on developing … literature. While in chapter two the interrelationship between globalization and fertility developments is analyzed, chapter 3 …

This volume is a census-focused compilation of state-level population, agriculture, and manufacturing data for the … fifty states and the District of Columbia. It also includes population figures for the largest 1990 cities from 1790 to 1990 …