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The complementary between technology and human capital in the early phase of industrialization
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This Version: July 21st, 2015
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309633
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Industrialization and the fertility decline
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This Version: August 26th, 2015
The research provides the first empirical examination of the hypothesized effect of industrialization on the fertility decline. Exploiting exogenous source of regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that industrialization was a major catalyst in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333033
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The complementary between technology and human capital in the early phase of industrialization
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This version: April 16th, 2015
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507908
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Technology-skill complementarity in the early phase of industrialization
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2016
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452726
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Flowers of evil? : industrialization and long run development
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2018 - This version: July 25, 2018
This research explores the effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, the study establishes that while the adoption of industrial technology was conducive to economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880410
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Flowers of evil? : industrialization and long run development
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2018
This research explores the effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, the study establishes that while the adoption of industrial technology was conducive to economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011886975
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Robustness Report on "Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in Nineteenth Century Industrial Britain", by Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman (2013)
Campbell, Douglas; Brodeur, Abel; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2024
Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) find that labor demand shocks in 19th-century Britain had an impact on master and servant prosecutions, as breaking an employee contract was a criminal offense until 1875. We first reproduce all regression tables in Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) and then test for robustness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014547852
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Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy and Philanthropy : Competition and Regulation in Nineteenth Century British Cotton Textiles
Shepherd, Alice - 2018
The paper analyses the relationship between entrepreneurial philanthropy and the competitive process. In doing so, it constructs a typology of entrepreneurial philanthropic behaviour. Such behaviour is conditioned by a combination of ideology and business strategy variables. Ideological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933633
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Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in Nineteenth Century Industrial Britain
Naidu, Suresh; Yuchtman, Noam - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 1, pp. 107-44
prosecutions. Following the abolition of criminal sanctions, wages differentially rose in counties that had experienced more … prosecutions, and wages responded more to labor demand shocks. Coercive contract enforcement was applied in industrial Britain …; restricted mobility allowed workers to commit to risk-sharing contracts with lower, but less volatile, wages. (JEL J31, J41, K12 …
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Robustness report on "Coercive contract enforcement: law and the labor market in nineteenth century industrial Britain", by Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman (2013)
Campbell, Douglas L.; Brodeur, Abel; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2024
Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) find that labor demand shocks in 19th-century Britain had an impact on master and servant prosecutions, as breaking an employee contract was a criminal offense until 1875. We first reproduce all regression tables in Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) and then test for robustness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014555738