| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w2477 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 2477 |
| Productivity in American Whaling: The New Bedford Fleet in the Nineteenth Century | |
| Lance Davis; Robert E. Gallman; Teresa Hutchins | |
| 发表日期 | 1987-12-01 |
| 出版年 | 1987 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | From the end of the War of 1812 until the Civil War the New Bedford whaling fleet grew spectacularly; thereafter it declined, equally spectacularly. By the end of the century New Bedford's day was over. During the 88 years of this period, the technical configuration of the fleet, the hunting grounds visited, and the types of whales pursued all changed dramatically, and more than once. The literature on whaling suggests that the collapse of the industry was due, in part, to declining productivity, occasioned by the disappearance of the whales (because of over-hunting) and the deterioration of the quality of labor. The shifts in the composition of the fleet are viewed, chiefly, as the result of efforts by whalemen to overcome their problems. In this paper, productivity data (superlative indexes), by voyage, are employed in multiple regression analysis to trace the relationships between the changes in the composition of the fleet and productivity. The propositions that declining labor quality and whale stocks had important consequences for productivity are subjected to test, while the impacts of technical changes on productivity are measured. |
| 主题 | Other |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w2477 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/559733 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lance Davis,Robert E. Gallman,Teresa Hutchins. Productivity in American Whaling: The New Bedford Fleet in the Nineteenth Century. 1987. |
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