Results for tag: Publication
Living standards in the UK at the start of the industrial revolution
| Date: | 27 May 2020 |
Herman de Jong and Daniel Gallardo published a paper in the European Review on Economic History on the evolution of English living standards during the early phase of industrialization (1760-1850). The paper takes a multi-dimensional perspective and...
Patterns of vertical specialisation
| Date: | 05 June 2019 |
In a recently published paper in the Review of World Economics, Stefan Pahl and Marcel Timmer document a new set of stylized facts on vertical specialisation since 1970. They construct new data to estimate the domestic value-added content in exports (VAX-D...
Post-Brexit trade policy
| Date: | 19 December 2018 |
Peter IJtsma, Bart Los and Marcel Timmer, joint with Peter Levell (IFS), published a paper in Fiscal Studies on the degree to which the UK participates in global value chains and what this implies for a post-Brexit trade policy. They argue that the UK will...
Functional specialization in trade
| Date: | 30 November 2018 |
Marcel Timmer and Gaaitzen de Vries, together with the OECD's Sébastien Miroudot, have published a paper in the Journal of Economic Geography on functional specialization in trade. They propose a new measure that describes in what type of activities a...
Technology, offshoring and the rise of non-routine jobs
| Date: | 10 September 2018 |
In research published in the Journal of Development Economics, Laurie Reijnders and Gaaitzen de Vries analyse the worldwide increase in the share of non-routine jobs. They find that, in particular, technology has led to a global increase in this share,...
Inequality moves in cycles
| Date: | 10 September 2018 |
New research by Herman de Jong and María Gómez León, published in the Economic History Review, examines inequality in Germany and the United Kingdom in the first half of the twentieth century. Over this period, the developments have mirrored each other in...
Online prices for real consumption comparisons
| Date: | 11 July 2018 |
Robert Inklaar and Marcel Timmer published a paper in the AEA Papers and Proceedings on using online prices for comparisons of real consumption levels across countries (open access version here), jointly with Alberto Cavallo (HBS), Erwin Diewert (UBC) and ...
VoxEU column on Rebasing 'Maddison'
| Date: | 25 January 2018 |
A new column on VoxEU is online, discussing the new version of the Maddison Project Database, which was released two weeks ago. The key innovation is to distinguish two series for real GDP per capita, one best suited for comparing income levels across...
The regional impact of Brexit
| Date: | 19 December 2017 |
In a new paper in Papers in Regional Science and a column on VoxEU, Bart Los and Wen Chen – together with Phil McCann, Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Mark Thissen and Frank van Oort – show how the impact of Brexit on labour income varies across the different...
Did technology shock drive the Great Depression?
| Date: | 20 September 2016 |
Robert Inklaar, Herman de Jong and Reitze Gouma have published a note in the Journal of Economic History. In this paper, titled "A Note on Technology Shocks and the Great Depression", they argue that their own earlier work and a more recent contribution by...