作者：Crafts, NFR
摘要：The British Industrial Revolution is reviewed in the light of recent developments in modeling economic growth. It is argued that ''endogenous innovation'' models may be useful in this context particularly for understanding why total factor productivity growth rose only slowly. ''Macroinventions'' were central to economic development in this period, however, and these are best seen as exogenous technological shocks. Although new growth theorists would easily identify higher growth potential in ...
作者：Yeager, TJ
摘要：When the Spaniards conquered the New World, they resorted to a form of native labor organization called the encomienda. The encomienda differed from slavery in that the Crown imposed inheritance, trading, and relocation restrictions on encomenderos. Such restrictions cost the Crown revenue by providing incentives for colonists to deplete more quickly the stock of native labor and by keeping native labor in areas of low-revenue productivity. This loss of revenue makes the Crown's preference for...
作者：HERR, E
摘要：This study uses a sample drawn from the 1880 Manuscript Census of Colorado to investigate the influence of individual and regional characteristics on the labor force participation rates of both single and married women in areas with different production characteristics. Results show that the determinants of labor force participation differ considerably for single and married women, but they also show strong consistency within each group. Labor force participation rates are also influenced by g...
