Assessing Economic Performance Among North American Manufacturing Establishments, 1870/71: Data, Methodology And Measurement Issues
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Keywords
Productivity Measurement; International Performance Comparisons; North American Industrialization;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N01 - Economic History - - General - - - Development of the Discipline: Historiographical; Sources and Methods
- N61 - Economic History - - Manufacturing and Construction - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
- O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
- O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2006-02-26 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-HIS-2006-02-26 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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