作者：University of California System; University of California Irvine
作者：Universite de Montreal
摘要：This article constructs new measures of worktime for Europe, North America, and Australia, 1870-1913. Great Britain began with the shortest work year and Belgium the longest. By 1913 certain continental countries approached British worktimes, and, consistent with recent findings on real wages, annual hours in Old and New Worlds had converged. Although globalization did not lead to a race to the bottom of worktimes, there is only partial evidence of a race to the top. National work routines, th...
作者：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Boston; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
作者：Duke University
摘要：This article tests the importance of human capital in explaining convergence across the states from 1880 to 1950. Human capital matters to a state's income level and to its growth rate through technological diffusion. The South, whose overwhelmingly agricultural society relied more heavily on work experience than formal education, and whose racial discrimination in school resource allocation lowered human capital accumulation of both blacks and whites, presents a unique pattern. The South's lo...
