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Human Capital and Productivity Performance: Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990

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Broadberry, Stephen N.
The Economic Future in Historical Perspective
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This chapter examines the relationship between human capital and productivity among three industrialized economies: Britain, Germany, and the United States. It first presents sectoral estimates of comparative labour productivity from 1870 to 1990. It then examines the process by which Britain was overtaken at the beginning of the twentieth century by the upstart economies of the United States and Germany. © The British Academy 2003. All rights reserved.

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human capital labour productivity Germany United States productivity Britain

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Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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