Population and wage records from the Chosŏn Dynasty of Korea from the 18th to 19th centuries are compared with Wrigley-Schofield's wage-population dynamics of Britain during the industrial revolution. A one-sector agrarian Cobb-Douglas economy is proposed for a possible comparison of the two...

How does economic modernization affect group identity? Modernization theory emphasizes how labor migration led to the adoption of common identities. Yet economic development may reduce incentives to emigrate, preserving local cultures. We study England and Wales during the Second Industrial...