| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28633 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28633 |
| Changing Returns to Scale in Manufacturing 1880-1930: The Rise of (Skilled) Labor? | |
| Jeanne Lafortune; Ethan G. Lewis; José Pablo Martínez; José Tessada | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-04-05 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper estimates returns to scale for manufacturing industries around the turn of the twentieth century in the United States by exploiting an industry-city panel data for the years 1880-1930. We estimate decreasing returns to scale on average over the period, contrary to most of the existing literature, because our empirical methodology allows us to separate returns to scale from "agglomeration" effects. We also find that returns to scale grew substantially after 1910, mostly because the return to labor grew. We find that this was more marked in industries that were more intensive in human capital and energy at the beginning of the period and in cells that were less competitive. Overall, results suggest that technological change and lack of initial competition played relevant roles in the rise of larger establishments in manufacturing. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; History ; Other History ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Regional Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28633 |
| 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/586306 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jeanne Lafortune,Ethan G. Lewis,José Pablo Martínez,et al. Changing Returns to Scale in Manufacturing 1880-1930: The Rise of (Skilled) Labor?. 2021. |
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