Why Isn't the Whole of Spain Industrialized? New Economic Geography and Early Industrialization, 1797–1910
By J. Rosés. Journal Economic History, 2003
115 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Spain provides an opportunity to study the causes of regional differences in industrial development over the nineteenth century. As transportation costs decreased and barriers to domestic trade were eliminated, Spanish manufacturing became increasingly concentrated in a few regions. This article combines Heckscher-Ohlin and economic-geography frameworks and finds that comparative-advantage and increasing-return effects were economically very significant and practically explained all differences in industrialization levels across regions. The deficits of some regions in terms of industrialization appear to have been largely attributable to their factor endowments and the absence of home-market effects for modern industries.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/28a99f0fc82004822bf4b777fd97b593aea41782
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Economics and Econometrics
Citations in the corpus
- The upswing of regional income inequality in Spain (1860-1930) (2009, unknown): “Third, different studies have firmed the fact that manufacturing production became increasingly concentrated during the period, as is suggested by the models (Rosés, 2003; Tirado et al., 2002).”
- Migrants and Market Potential in Spain over The XXth Century: A Test Of The New Economic Geography (2007, background): “Thus, in the second half of the nineteenth century - a period in which Spain increasingly opened up to the outside world – the country experienced a growth in the spatial concentration of its industrial activity in a very limited number of regions (Tirado, Pons and Paluzie, 2002; Rosés, 2003).”