Labor Productivity during the Great Depression in UK Manufacturing
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Keywords
labor productivity; Great Depression; diminishing returns to hours;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- N64 - Economic History - - Manufacturing and Construction - - - Europe: 1913-
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2019-06-24 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-EUR-2019-06-24 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HIS-2019-06-24 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MAC-2019-06-24 (Macroeconomics)
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