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How Technologically Progressive Was Germany in the Interwar Period? Evidence on Total Factor Productivity in Coal Mining

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The discussion of the rationalization wave in German industry (1924–1929) still lacks proper industry-level estimates of the rate of technological progress. To close part of this gap, this article investigates total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hard coal mining over the extended period 1913–1938. Stochastic Frontier Analysis is applied to a sample of firms from the Ruhr coal district. TFP grew positively overall and specifically from 1924–1929. Surprisingly, however, TFP growth was even faster from 1933–1938, suggesting that the Nazi economy heavily capitalized on the Weimar rationalization movement, the effects of which are usually not traced beyond 1932.

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  • Jopp, Tobias A., 2016. "How Technologically Progressive Was Germany in the Interwar Period? Evidence on Total Factor Productivity in Coal Mining," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 76(4), pages 1113-1151, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:76:y:2016:i:04:p:1113-1151_00
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    1. Tobias A. Jopp, 2018. "On the economics of forced labour. Did the employment of Prisoners-of-War depress German coal mining productivity in World War I?," Working Papers 0132, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).

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