PRODUCTIVITY, EXTENT OF MARKETS, AND MANUFACTURING IN THE LATE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH AND MIDWEST

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: TCHAKERIAN, V
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700015011
• 发表日期: 1994
• 页码: 497-525
• 关键词: industrial

摘要

This article uses the Bateman-Weiss samples of manufacturing firms from 1850 and 1860 to estimate the labor and total factor productivity of southern and midwestern manufacturing industries in the late antebellum period. The results indicate rapid growth in productivity, especially in the South. The article also demonstrates a positive association between measured productivity, firm size, and urbanization. Differences in manufacturing performance between the South and the Midwest are shown to be crucially dependent on the extent of markets within the two regions.