Index

Research in Economic History

ISBN: 978-1-78756-582-1, eISBN: 978-1-78756-581-4

ISSN: 0363-3268

Publication date: 22 August 2018

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(2018), "Index", Research in Economic History (Research in Economic History, Vol. 34), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 199-207. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0363-326820180000034007

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INDEX

Administrative entities
, 140

Adult male annual consumption baskets
, 11

Agricultural/agriculture
, 139, 142–143

national value added by agricultural subsector
, 179

production
, 83

regional value added estimation in
, 178–183

Aldrich Vreeland Act (1908)
, 100

Alpine region’s productivity gap decomposition
, 158–160

Amalgamated Copper
, 112

American financial firms
, 112–113

Anatomical method
, 73–74

Anglo-Saxon population
, 82

Animal husbandry, regional data on
, 179

beehives and chicken
, 180

bovines to slaughtered
, 180

Annual saving
, 43

Archeologists
, 73, 75, 77, 82, 90

Artisan’s Order of Mutual Protection
, 54

Average productivity
, 123, 160–162

Bank

assets
, 102

liabilities
, 102

Bank of Chile
, 112

Bank of England
, 101, 103, 113

Bank of England rate (BER)
, 102, 113, 115, 116, 120, 147

Bank of Japan
, 110–111

Bare bones

estimate
, 3–4, 9–10

index
, 9

Bassins d’emploi regions (BE regions)
, 140, 171, 177

Battle for cultivation
, 181

Beans
, 6

Bell-shaped curve
, 162–164

Bell-shaped evolution
, 145, 148

Bioarcheological data
, 70, 73

Black Death
, 84

Blue-collar workers
, 68

Boletim do Departamento Estadual de Trabalho (BDET)
, 5–6

Boom/bust pattern
, 107, 120

Brazilian/Brazil
, 2

coffee valorization scheme
, 13

labor market
, 3

municipios
, 3

Bread
, 8

British regional inequality
, 147–148

Brown rice
, 7

Building association
, 56, 58

Cantons
, 136, 137, 140, 154, 156, 157, 170, 171, 183

Capital
, 155–156

capital-intensive operations
, 122

market imperfections
, 47, 50

Carroll Wright’s admonition
, 41

Cash holdings
, 43

Centro de Documentaçaõe InformaÇão Científica (CEDIC)
, 27n12

Centro de Industriais de Fiação e Tecelagem de São Paulo (CIFTSP)
, 15–16

Childhood
, 69, 75

Coffee

export price index
, 14

prices
, 13

Commercial banks
, 50

Commodities
, 103–104, 114, 115, 121, 122

Commodity prices
, 102, 103, 104, 113, 114

Commuting
, 138, 155–156, 185

fiscal decentralization and facilitation
, 165

incidence
, 136

subsidization
, 156–157

Comparative advantage
, 157–164

effect
, 159, 164

in micro regions
, 160–162

Ricardo’s theory
, 160

Consumption basket(s)
, 3, 8–15

adult male annual
, 11

index
, 11

Contractionary monetary policy
, 100, 101, 113, 123, 124

Convergence with large regions
, 148

Copper

coefficients of variation for commodities
, 122

copper-related crises
, 110

decline in copper prices
, 113–123

federal reserve
, 114

generalized impulse response to shock in BER
, 118

Granger-causality tests
, 116

impulse responses
, 119, 120

producers
, 108

unit root tests
, 115

VAR Granger-causality Results
, 117

“Corner attempt”
, 104, 107

Cost of living
, 3, 4, 13, 23, 26

“Curb Market”
, 104

Davis index
, 9, 27n21

See also Price index

Deaton’s observation
, 48

Decomposition

of Alpine region’s productivity gap
, 158–160

of GDP per worker differentials
, 191–197

method
, 158

of regional inequality
, 157

Degenerative joint diseases, index of
, 88

Dental enamel hypoplasia
, 72, 91n4

Dietary improvements
, 82

Diffusion

within labor market basins
, 146, 154–155

across large regions
, 146, 153–154

Direct tax collection
, 156

Dissaving
, 47, 50

Dividend omissions
, 108

Durable goods
, 43

Dutch banking dislocations
, 113

Early-medieval period
, 77

East Jersey Water Company
, 60

East Smithfield Black Death cemetery
, 72

Economic historians
, 2, 36, 59, 83

Economic theory
, 136

Economist Monthly Trade Supplement, The
, 115

Economists
, 3, 37, 38, 47, 101

“Endangered” industrial regions
, 157

England

amount of data contributing to estimates in interval
, 98

Anglo-Saxon population
, 82

caveat
, 87–88

details of skeletal remains data by source and time period
, 96–97

estimating trends in height over time
, 77–78

health, height, and history
, 88–89

LIA
, 86–87

long-term trends in stature
, 79–81

mature male height distribution reconstructed from right femur
, 98

measuring well-being over very long-run
, 68–70

output growth per person in agriculture
, 84

output in English agriculture and stature
, 83

reconstructing stature from length of long bones
, 73–74

selection bias
, 75–76

sources of evidence
, 70–73

stature and indices of real wages
, 85

English Civil War (1642–1651)
, 69

English Heritage data
, 70

Estado de São Paulo (ESP)
, 5–6

European immigrant groups
, 2

European Integration
, 136

Eurostat-compatible NUTS II regions
, 171–172

Federal Reserve
, 114

Federal Reserve Act (1913)
, 100

Femur
, 74, 75, 88

Fichas
, 15–17

Financial/finance
, 37

amplification mechanisms
, 103

crisis
, 100, 102–104

instability
, 100

institutions
, 38, 58

institutions, intermediation, and growth
, 58–60

institutions and household allocations
, 50–58

macroeconomic data
, 36–37

portfolio allocations of savings banks and industrial insurance
, 59

saving
, 36

savings mobilization, finance, and development
, 38–40

surveys
, 37

urban working-class household saving behaviors
, 40–50

Fiscal decentralization
, 136, 156–157, 165

Fishergate
, 72–73

Food

prices
, 4, 5, 9, 13

products
, 6

Forensic anthropology
, 73–74

Fraternal beneficiary societies
, 53–55

Fruit trees
, 142, 183

Geary-Stark method
, 138, 141, 142

Geary–Stark-like estimation
, 184

Generosity
, 55

Genoa Stock Exchange
, 112

German banking dislocations
, 113

German financial firms
, 112–113

Germanic and Scandinavian influxes
, 76

Gini coefficients
, 145, 162

Gini index of GDP
, 147

Global shock to commodity prices
, 103

Gold payments
, 101

Grain acres
, 142, 181

Granger-causality tests
, 116

Great Depression
, 156

Gross domestic product (GDP)
, 41, 68, 136, 137

decomposition per worker differentials
, 191–197

estimates
, 41

Gross national product (GNP)
, 137

Growth factor
, 7, 8

Health
, 69

height, and history
, 88–89

index
, 88, 90n2

Height over time, estimating trends in
, 77–78

Heights across last 2,000 years in England
, 81

amount of data contributing to estimates in interval
, 98

Anglo-Saxon population
, 82

caveat
, 87–88

details of skeletal remains data by source and time period
, 96–97

estimating trends in height over time
, 77–78

health, height, and history
, 88–89

LIA
, 86–87

long-term trends in stature
, 79–81

mature male height distribution reconstructed from right femur
, 98

measuring well-being over very long-run
, 68–70

output growth per person in agriculture
, 84

output in English agriculture and stature
, 83

reconstructing stature from length of long bones
, 73–74

selection bias
, 75–76

sources of evidence
, 70–73

stature and indices of real wages
, 85

Heinze copper corner and copper prices in
, 1907, 104

boom/bust pattern in copper prices
, 107

Copper Prices and London Bank Rate
, 105

decline in value of margined position in United Copper
, 109

decomposition of change
, 110

financial firms
, 111

timeline of crises
, 111

Heinze transaction
, 102, 106

Heinze/Morse banks
, 101, 106

Heuristic model
, 144, 158, 162

bell-shaped evolution
, 145

diffusion within or across labor market basins
, 146

geographical levels
, 145

one or several core regions
, 146

resources attraction from within labor market region
, 146

Williamson’s bell-shaped curve
, 144–145

Historical International Social Class Scheme (HISCLASS)
, 18

Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations (HISCO)
, 18

Historical statistics of Switzerland online (HSSO)
, 186

Household

allocations
, 55–58

heads’ earnings
, 41

savings rates
, 46

Independent Order of Foresters
, 54

Independent variables
, 19, 116

Index for copper prices (CPRICE)
, 115

Individual-level employee characteristics
, 15

Industrial

economy
, 52

insurance
, 53

life insurance companies
, 54, 58

revolution
, 86

sickness societies
, 54

Industrial production (IP)
, 115

Industrialization
, 22, 23, 68, 86

Industrious Revolution
, 68, 86

Industry-mix effect
, 194

Infancy
, 69

Institutional populations
, 69

Institutions and household allocations
, 50, 55–58

fraternal beneficiary societies
, 53–55

Life Insurance Companies
, 52–53

mutual savings banks
, 50–52

number and value of industrial life policies underwritten
, 53

proportion of households reporting by combination
, 57

statistics of household saving and membership
, 56

Interest rates
, 104, 114, 124

Internal migration
, 76

Investments in Bonds and Stock category
, 106

Italian banking dislocations
, 113

Jafet
, 15–16, 17–18

Japanese banking dislocations
, 113

Kim’s industry-mix effect
, 194

Kim’s residual productivity index
, 194

Labor market

basins
, 148

diffusion within
, 154–155

diffusion within or across
, 146

micro regional inequality within
, 152

region
, 146

regional inequality with
, 150

resources attraction from within
, 146

LaCroix’s decomposition
, 194

Land use, regional data on
, 180

fruit trees
, 183

grain acres
, 181

other acres
, 182

vineyards
, 182–183

Land–labor ratios
, 84–85

Lard prices
, 6

Laspeyres indexes
, 8–9, 194

Laspeyres productivity index
, 195

Laspeyres structure index
, 195

Late-medieval period
, 77

Life insurance
, 53, 57

companies
, 40, 52–53

Life-cycle

model
, 47

savers
, 47

Liquidity effect
, 102

Little Ice Age (LIA)
, 86–87

Loan association
, 58

Local savings banks
, 56–57

Location factor
, 137

London monetary policy

to American institutions
, 103

shocks
, 103

Long bones, reconstructing stature from length of
, 73–74

Long-term trends in stature
, 79–81

Low-skilled workers

natural log hourly wages
, 4

nominal wages
, 19

Lower-bound estimation
, 10

Macro-prudential monetary policy
, 100

Manioc flour prices
, 8

Marginal productivity
, 141

Market integration
, 182

Mathematical method
, 73–74

Maturity transformation function
, 39

Meat
, 6–7

Medium-skilled workers

natural log hourly wages
, 4

nominal wages
, 19

Merton Priory
, 72, 78

Metal-specific characteristics
, 114

Migration
, 146, 155–156

Mobility
, 155

Mobilization of savings
, 36

Modernization
, 139, 148

process
, 158

Monastic cemetery
, 72

Movement spatial regions (MS regions)
, 140, 142, 171

Multiple core regions
, 139, 146, 153, 157, 164, 165

Municipalities
, 136, 140, 156, 157, 170

Museum of London
, 70, 72, 74

Mutual savings banks
, 40, 50–52

National Fraternal Congress
, 54

National value added by agricultural subsector
, 179

Net national income (NNI)
, 137

Net wealth
, 43

New Jersey Bureau of Statistics of Labor and Industries (NJBSLI)
, 40

New Jersey

Prudential Insurance Company
, 40

savings banks
, 58, 59

New York crisis
, 113

New York event (1907)
, 100

New York-centered liquidity crisis
, 100

The New York Times
, 113

Nomenclature des Unites Territoriales Statistiques II regions (NUTS II regions)
, 171

Nominal hourly Paulistano wages
, 22

Nominal wages
, 15, 19

indexes
, 22

Jafet
, 17–18

Light
, 16–17

Paulista
, 16

predicted
, 20–21

series
, 3–4

Non-Brazilian historians
, 3

OECD
, 140, 171

Old Republic
, 2, 3, 16–17, 23, 25

Old Republic São Paulo

nominal wages
, 15–23

Paulistano real hourly wages by skill level
, 33–34

Paulistano real wages
, 23–25

predicted São Paulo nominal hourly wages
, 32–33

price index
, 4–15

sample wage data company distributions by skill level
, 31

Paasche productivity index
, 195

Panic of
, 1907, 100, 101

decline in copper prices
, 113–123

financial crises and 1907 event
, 102–104

Heinze copper corner and copper prices in
, 1907, 104–113

Parameter uncertainty
, 120

Paulista
, 15–16

Paulistano

bare bones basket base
, 10

real hourly wages by skill level
, 33–34

real wages
, 23–25

Pay-as-you-go benefits
, 55

Pay-as-you-go systems
, 58

Philadelphia Savings Fund Society (PSFS)
, 41

Plague of Justinian
, 82

Plan Wahlen. See Battle for cultivation

Pontífica Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
, 27n12

Portfolio

channel
, 103

mechanism
, 104

Post-medieval period
, 77

Potatoes
, 7

Predicted São Paulo nominal hourly wages
, 32–33

Preston and Haines series (P–H series)
, 18

Preventive societies
, 54

Price index
, 4

consumption baskets
, 8–15

products
, 5–8

Rio vs. São Paulo index
, 5

Price index for noncopper commodities (NCPRICE)
, 115

Price(s)
, 2, 3

series
, 3–4

of subsistence
, 9–10

Primary carbohydrate consumption
, 8

Principal intermediation functions
, 39

Privatization process
, 16

Production cessation
, 108

Productivity
, 157–164

effect
, 194

in micro regions
, 160–162

Products
, 5

beans
, 6

bread
, 8

fats
, 6

meat
, 6–7

potatoes
, 7

rice
, 7

sugar
, 7–8

Província de São Paulo (PSP)
, 5–6

Ramifera
, 112

Rapid structural transformations
, 139

Real wage series
, 3–4

Redistribution
, 156

Redistributive transfer system (Finanzausgleich)
, 157

Refining technology
, 123

Regional GDP estimation for Switzerland
, 137–138

Regional inequality
, 136

Regional inequality in Switzerland
, 147

agriculture
, 142–143

bell-shaped curve
, 162–164

bell-shaped evolution with micro regions and convergence with large regions
, 148

decomposition of Alpine region’s productivity gap
, 158–160

decomposition of GDP per worker differentials
, 191–197

diffusion across large regions
, 153–154

diffusion within labor market basins
, 154–155

explaining
, 138–140

fine-grained geographical level
, 136–137

heuristic model
, 144–146

institutions
, 156

in international comparison
, 147–148

with labor market basins
, 150

with large regions
, 149

manufacturing and services
, 143–144

methods and data for estimating
, 141

micro regional inequality within labor market basins
, 152

with micro regions
, 151

multiple core regions
, 153

regional GDP estimation for Switzerland
, 137–138

regional value added estimation in agriculture
, 178–183

regional value added estimation in manufacturing
, 183–191

resource attraction
, 155–156

sectoral structure, productivity, and comparative advantage
, 157

structure, productivity, and comparative advantage in micro regions
, 160–162

territorial subdivisions
, 140, 170–178

Regional labor productivity
, 143

Regional policy
, 156–157

Regional value added estimation

agricultural employment
, 183

in agriculture
, 178

chaining procedure
, 184

duties
, 190

in manufacturing
, 183

national value added by agricultural subsector
, 179

period 1 (1860–1888)
, 185

period 2 (1888–1941)
, 186, 187–189

period 3 (1941–1990)
, 186, 189, 190

period 4 (2001–2008)
, 191

procedure
, 178

regional data on animal husbandry
, 179–180

regional data on land use
, 180–183

rental apartments
, 186–190

splicing between periods 2 and 3
, 191

Regional wage differentials
, 141

Relative GDP per capita of region
, 191

Relatório da Secretaria de Agricultura (RSA)
, 5–6

Remedial societies
, 53

Rent
, 9

Residential structures
, 58

Ricardian specialization
, 162

Ricardo’s theory
, 160

Rice
, 7

Risk-management services
, 38

Roman period
, 70, 77, 80, 90

Roman water systems
, 81–82

São Paulo
, 2

predicted São Paulo nominal hourly wages
, 32–33

price indexes
, 12–13, 14

São Paulo Old Republic (SPOR)
, 15

Saving(s)
, 36

bank trustees
, 51

banks
, 38, 58, 59

features of saving estimates
, 47

mobilization, finance, and development
, 38–40

rate
, 37

Saxon period
, 70

Scholars
, 4, 114

Second industrial revolution
, 139

Selection bias
, 75–76

Self-help program
, 51

Sickness societies
, 55

Simple diffusion process
, 145

Skeletal/skeletons
, 72, 74

data
, 88

data by source and time period
, 96–97

details of skeletal remains data
, 71

remains
, 69, 72

Skill level

classifications
, 18

Paulistano real hourly wages by
, 33–34

sample wage data company distributions by
, 31

Smelting
, 123

Societa Bancaria Italiana (SBI)
, 111–112

Societa Ligure Ramifera
, 112

Southern cone immigration destinations
, 3

Spatial mobility analysis
, 171

Specialized intermediaries
, 39–40

Spectator Company
, 54

Standortfaktor. See Location factor

Stature, long-term trends in
, 79–81

Structural regional analyses
, 140

Subsidization of commuting
, 156–157

Substitution method
, 8

Sugar
, 7–8

Swiss GDP
, 137, 139

Switzerland

regional inequality in international comparison
, 147–148

territorial subdivisions for
, 170–178

System of National Accounts (SNA)
, 143

T-bills
, 104

Tax collection
, 156

Territorial subdivisions
, 140

for Switzerland
, 170–178

Testing methodologies
, 114–115

Total factor productivity (TFP)
, 37

U-shape evolution
, 162

Unit root tests
, 115

United Copper
, 112

Company
, 101

transaction
, 102, 104

Unskilled workers

natural log hourly wages
, 4

nominal wages
, 19

Unternehmergeschäft
, 155

Upper-bound estimation
, 10

Urban labor market
, 2–3

Urban working-class household saving behaviors
, 40

determinants of household saving rates
, 49

household saving rates by income percentile
, 46

New Jersey Industrial Workers reported vs. estimated saving
, 46

reported vs. estimated annual income
, 45

statistics of income, expenditures, savings, and employment
, 42

Urbanization
, 2, 68

Value added services
, 153, 165

Vector autoregressive model (VAR model)
, 102, 113–115

See also Heuristic model

Vineyards
, 142, 182–183

Wages
, 3, 15, 69

wage-earners real income
, 68

See also Nominal wages

Weekly payments
, 52

Welfare
, 69

Williamson model
, 139, 155

Williamson’s bell-shaped curve
, 144–145

Williamson’s heuristic model
, 145

Winchester
, 70

“Withdrawal of finance bills”
, 101

Working-class

families
, 52

households
, 37

World War II
, 155, 156, 181

Zero saving rate
, 47