This paper investigates structural change in Argentina between 1935 and 1960, a period of rapid industrialization and … relative decline of agriculture was due to the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI). This was also the … period, however, that directly followed the closing of the land frontier, resulting in a declining land-labor ratio as the …

In this paper, we apply a model of early industrialization to the case of New Zealand and Uruguay in 1870-1940. We show … similar in many respects. While in New Zealand the active role of the Crown in regulating the land market facilitated access … to land, in Uruguay land was seized by a small group of large landowners. Our model shows that land concentration may …

This paper investigates structural change in Argentina between 1935 and 1960, a period of rapid industrialization and … relative decline of agriculture was due to the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI). This was also the … period, however, that directly followed the closing of the land frontier, resulting in a declining land-labor ratio as the …