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Flowers of Evil? Industrialization and Long Run Development

Franck, Raphaël - 2018

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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Is Industrialization Conducive to Long-Run Prosperity?

Franck, Raphaël - 2015

This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … the French industrial revolution, the research establishes that regions in which industrialization was more intensive …. Nevertheless, intensive industrialization has had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by the turn of …

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Health Determinants in Urban China

Zhao, Zhong - 2021

This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying the Grossman model. Using a wave of China Health and Nutrition Survey in 2000, we find that education has an important positive effect on health, and cost of health care services has a significantly negative impact. However,...

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Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas Under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures : The Case of China

Liwen, Chen - 2011

under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … urbanization patterns and industrial development strategies should be adopted in different economic areas to enhance labor …

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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012

new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization …

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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy

De la Croix, David - 2016

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...

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Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth

Yang, Dennis Tao - 2010

This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative price of industrial products, but has a limited effect...

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Cross Sections are History

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013

Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...

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Jobless Growth through Creative Destruction : Ireland's Industrial Development Path 1972-2003

Li, Qi; Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara - 2021

We document the nature of structural changes in employment to understand "jobless" growth in Irish Manufacturing in the aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, forty years of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced the coexistence of large exporting plants with...

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Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization

Franck, Raphaël - 2016

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …

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