Factor prices and productivity growth during the British Industrial Revolution
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- Antras, Pol & Voth, Hans-Joachim, 2003. "Factor prices and productivity growth during the British industrial revolution," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 40(1), pages 52-77, January.
- Antras, Pol & Voth, Hans-Joachim, 2003. "Factor Prices and Productivity Growth During the British Industrial Revolution," Scholarly Articles 3199066, Harvard University Department of Economics.
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Keywords
British industrial revolution; productivity growth; dual measurement of productivity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
- O52 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2000-09-18 (Development)
- NEP-EFF-2000-09-18 (Efficiency & Productivity)
- NEP-HIS-2000-09-18 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
- NEP-INO-2000-09-18 (Innovation)
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