作者:University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University System of Ohio; Bowling Green State University
作者:Vanderbilt University
摘要:I use retrospective work histories from a unique dataset to follow workers in six cities through occupational, industrial, and geographic moves, thereby characterizing aspects of black economic mobility during the 1940s that cannot be viewed through the Census data. Relatively few migrants were drawn directly from the southern agricultural sector. Black occupational upgrades were larger than white upgrades on average but black upgrades were smaller than those of observationally similar whites....
作者:University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
作者:Western University (University of Western Ontario); University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要:This study examines technical change, trade, economic structure, and growth during the British Industrial Revolution by means of computational general equilibrium (CGE) modeling. It rejects Peter Temin's contention that our new view of sectorally concentrated productivity growth is inconsistent with industrial export data. A CGE trade model with diminishing returns in agriculture and realistic assumptions about consumer demand shows that while technical change in cottons and iron were major sp...
作者:University of California System; University of California San Diego
作者:New York University; Vanderbilt University
作者:University System of Georgia; University of Georgia