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(manufacturers, merchants) are most active in lobbying for industrialization. Third, industrial concentration increases progressive … lobbying for industrialization in the British data. …
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(manufacturers, merchants) are most active in lobbying for industrialization. Third, industrial concentration increases progressive … lobbying for industrialization in the British data. …
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(manufacturers, merchants) are most active in lobbying for industrialization. Third, industrial concentration increases progressive … lobbying for industrialization in the British data. …
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One of the most striking regularities of the growth process is the massive reallocation of labor from agriculture into industry and services. Balanced growth models are commonly used in macroeconomics because they are consistent with the well-known Kaldor facts about economic growth. These...
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time. Yet we know remarkably little about why industrialization occurred so much earlier in some parts of the world than in … industrialization probabilities. The paper also explores the availability of nutrition for poorer segments of society. We examine the … industrialization. Simulations using parameter values for other countries show that Britain's early escape was only partly due to chance …
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Many theories link urbanization with industrialization; in partic- ular, with the production of tradable (and typically …
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Many theories link urbanization with industrialization; in particular, with the production of tradable (and typically … manufactured) goods. We document that the expected relationship between urbanization and the level of industrialization is not …
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This paper analyzes a stylized small open economy that consists of two tradable output-producing sectors: a manufacturing sector and a (mainly tourism-related) services sector. Assuming sectoral differences based on stylized facts, we explore the impact of higher labor standards in the...
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Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...
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