Bernanke, Ben S; Parkinson, Martin L - In: Journal of Political Economy 99 (1991) 3, pp. 439-59
The authors study the phenomenon of short-run increasing returns to labor (SRIRL) in a sample of ten interwar U.S. manufacturing industries. Their authors main findings are that SRIRL was common in the interwar period and that the pattern of SRIRL across industries was similar to that observed...