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Enterprise creation, destruction, and evolution support the transition to modern economic growth, yet these processes are poorly understood in industrializing contexts. We investigate Imperial Russia's industrial development at the firm-level by examining entry, exit, and persistence of...
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plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …
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Although European economic history provides essentially no support for the view that education of the general population has a positive causal effect on economic growth, a recent paper by Becker, Hornung and Woessmann (Education and catch-up in the Industrial Revolution, 2011) claims that such...
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, and tubing) would promote industrialization and enhance value-add. In practice, however, unit prices have only been …
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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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structural transformation toward industrialization, manufacturing in particular. Workers moved out of agriculture into … as the "engine of growth." It is in the context of industrialization that openness played an important role in East Asia … exchange) and industrialization. Part 1 of the paper documents the extent of structural transformation in developing Asia …
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This research explores the effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional … steam engines across French departments during the early phases of industrialization, the research establishes that … intensive industrialization in the middle of the 19th century increased income per capita in the subsequent decades but …
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Discussions on the developing world's industrial policies have largely neglected the role of state-owned entities. This paper argues that the resurgence of state capitalism has been, in part, the response of developing countries to the recent pattern of structural transformation involving weak...
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plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …
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This paper examines industrialization trends in developing countries. It uses the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic … countries for the period 1990-2018. Until the early 2000s de-industrialization was widespread, but then the trend reversed …. Regressions that control for income and demographic trends suggest significant employment industrialization in developing Asia and …
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