The Sources of Long-Run Growth in Spain, 1850-2000

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 1063-1091
• 关键词: productivity growth; ECONOMIC-GROWTH; technical change; prices

摘要

Between 1850 and 2000 Spain's real output and labor productivity grew at average rates of 2.5 and 2.1 percent. The sources of this long-run growth are investigated here for the first time. Broad capital accumulation and efficiency-term growth. Factor accumulation gains appear as complementary in Spain's long dominated long-run growth up to 1950, while total factor productivity (TFP) led thereafter and, especially, during periods of growth acceleration. The main spurts in TFP and capital coincide with the impact of the railroads (1850s-1880), the electrification (the 1920s and 1950s), and to the adoption of new vintage technology during the Golden Age.