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The Spread of Manufacturing to the Poor Periphery 1870---2007

Bénétrix, Agustín S. - 2012

peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th century, the high point of peripheral industrialization was the 1950 …-1973 period, which saw widespread import- substituting industrialization. This period was also the high point of unconditional …

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International Labor Economics

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2002

I argue for increased reliance on non-U.S. data and policy evaluations to understand basic labor- market parameters and to predict the effects of changes in U.S. labor-market policies. Foreign experiences generate exogenous shocks to labor costs that create unusual opportunities to measure...

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Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run

Jones, Charles I. - 1999

This paper studies a growth model that is able to match several key facts of economic history. For thousands of years, the average standard of living seems to have risen very little, despite increases in the level of technology and large increases in the level of the population. Then, after...

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Trade, Technology, and the Great Divergence

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2019

Why did per capita income divergence occur so dramatically during the 19th Century, rather than at the outset of the Industrial Revolution? How were some countries able to reverse this trend during the globalization of the late 20th Century? To answer these questions, this paper develops a...

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Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions : The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence

Desmet, Klaus - 2018

A market-size-only theory of industrialization cannot explain why England developed nearly two centuries before China … factor suppliers' organizations such as craft guilds, industrialization no longer depends on market size, but on spatial …

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When, Where, and Why? Early Industrialization in the Poor Periphery 1870-1940

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010

This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over these seven critical...

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Globalization and the Great Divergence : Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2008

trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently …, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth in the poor periphery. This paper assess these de-industrialization … divergence between core and periphery. Third, the boom and its de-industrialization impact was only part of the story; growth …

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Trade and the Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution

Lucas, Robert E, Jr - 2007

A model is proposed to describe the evolution of real GDPs in the world economy that is intended to apply to all open economies. The five parameters of the model are calibrated using the Sachs-Warner definition of openness and time-series and cross-section data on incomes and other variables...

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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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Industrial Policy and Downstream Export Performance

Blonigen, Bruce - 2013

Industrial policies (IPs) include such varying practices as production subsidies, export subsidies, and import protection, and are commonly used by countries to promote targeted sectors. However, such policies can have significant impacts on sectors other than those targeted by the IPs,...

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