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Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography

Kim, Sukkoo - 2003

between urbanization and trends in aggregate economic structure, such as industrialization; and changes in the internal …

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Geography and Economic Development

Gallup, John Luke - 1998

This paper addresses the complex relationship between geography and macroeconomic growth. We investigate the ways in which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and institutions, as well as the effects of geography on policy choices and institutions. We find...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471963

Financial Development and the Composition of Industrial Growth

Fisman, Raymond - 2003

We re-examine the role of financial market development in the intersectoral allocation of resources. Specifically, we propose the use of a new methodology that looks at the co-movement in growth rates across pairs of countries to examine the role of financial development in allowing firms to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469127

Knowledge, Human Capital and Economic Development : Evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750-1930

Khan, B. Zorina - 2015

of early British industrialization supports the thesis that economic advances depend on specialized scientific training … British industrialization, by assessing the backgrounds, education and inventive activity of the major contributors to …

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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011

This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over this critical century. The...

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Industrialization and Urbanization : Did the Steam Engine Contribute to the Growth of Cities in the United States?

Kim, Sukkoo - 2005

Industrialization and urbanization are seen as interdependent processes of modern economic development. However, the … power source by manufacturers during industrialization contributed to urbanization. While the data indicate that steam … contribute substantially to urbanization …

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Immigration, Industrial Revolution and Urban Growth in the United States, 1820-1920 : Factor Endowments, Technology and Geography

Kim, Sukkoo - 2007

Industrial revolution is fundamentally linked with the rise of factories and the decline of skilled artisans in manufacturing. Most scholars agree that factories as compared to artisan shops were intensive in unskilled labor. Indeed, the hallmark of the early factories is the utilization of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465756

Reversal of Fortune : Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution

Acemoglu, Daron - 2001

relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for … industrialization opportunities …

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Industrialization and Urbanization in Nineteenth Century America

Atack, Jeremy; Margo, Robert A.; Rhode, Paul W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

likely for other economies that experienced historical industrialization and urbanization …

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Sprouting Cities : How Rural America Industrialized

Eckert, Fabian; Juneau, John; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the joint process of urbanization and industrialization in the US economy between 1880 and 1940. We show that … only a small share of aggregate industrialization is accounted for by the relocation of workers from remote rural areas to … transforming their sectoral structure. Most industrialization within counties occurred through the emergence of new "factory …

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