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Heblich, Stephan; Trew, Alex - 2015

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...

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Of cities and slums

Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander; … - 2016

The emergence of slums is a common feature in a country's path towards urbanization, structural transformation and …

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Railroads, technology adoption, and modern economic development : evidence from Japan

Yamasaki, Junichi - 2017

change and urbanization, the two common features of modern economic growth. I examine this particular mechanism in the … mean reversion in population growth, eventually leading to urbanization. My results support the view that railroad network …

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The effects of rural land right security on labour structural transformation and urbanization : evidence from Thailand

Chankrajang, Thanyaporn - 2012

labour structural transformation from agriculture to non-agriculture as well as on urbanization, with a specific focus on … Although SPK4-01 titling alone is found to have no significant effect on urbanization, its impact depends significantly on … within-province transport infrastructure. More specifically, rural land right security increases urbanization more in …

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The political economy of structural transformation in African cities : insights from the Deals and Development framework

Sen, Kunal - 2024

An important stylized fact about African economic development is the phenomenon of urbanization without structural …

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Rural Transformation in India in the Decade of Miraculous Economic Growth

Ohlan, Ramphul - 2016

Implementation of economic reforms in India has not only stimulated economic growth but also brought tremendous changes in nature and structure of rural economy as well. The study empirically measures the pattern and extent of rural transformation in India, witnessed during the first decade of...

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Spatial Takeoff in the First Industrial Revolution

Trew, Alex - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 17 (2014) 4, pp. 707-725

Using the framework of Desmet and Rossi-Hansberg (2009), we present a model of spatial takeoff that is calibrated using spatially-disaggregated occupational data for England in c.1710. The model predicts changes in the spatial distribution of agricultural and manufacturing employment which match...

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Capital account liberalization, structural change, and female employment

Akin, Selin Secil; Montecino, Juan Antonio - In: Journal of globalization and development 14 (2023) 2, pp. 223-252

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Transition Dynamics in the Neoclassical Growth Model : The Case of South Korea

Chang, Yongsung - 2013

Many successful examples of economic development, such as South Korea, exhibit long periods of sustained capital accumulation. This process is characterized by a gradually rising investment rate along with a moderate rate of return to capital, both of which are strongly at odds with the standard...

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Urbanization, long-run growth, and the demographic transition

Adams, Jonathan J. - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 88 (2022) 1, pp. 31-77

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