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Sooner than you think: the Pre-1914 UK Productivity Slowdown was Victorian not Edwardian
European Review of Economic History ( IF 1.2 ) Pub Date : 2020-03-19 , DOI: 10.1093/ereh/hez022
Nicholas Crafts 1 , Terence C Mills 2
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Abstract
This paper re-examines UK productivity growth in the decades before World War I using a new dataset compiled by the Bank of England. We find that the productivity slowdown of the early twentieth century was quite modest and does not deserve to be called a climacteric. A more serious slowdown in labour productivity growth occurred in the 1870s. Neither of these episodes should be regarded as a precedent for the current severe deterioration in UK productivity performance. Nor should a late-Victorian productivity slowdown be attributed to the end of the steam age despite the popularity of this belief.


中文翻译:

比您想象的要早:1914年前的英国生产率下降是维多利亚时代的,而不是爱德华时代的

摘要
本文使用由英格兰银行汇编的新数据集,重新审查了第一次世界大战前几十年英国的生产力增长。我们发现,二十世纪初期的生产力下降是相当适度的,不应该被称为更年期。1870年代,劳动生产率的增长出现了更为严重的放缓。这些事件均不应视为当前英国生产力表现严重恶化的先例。尽管这种观念很流行,但维多利亚时代后期的生产率下降也不应归因于蒸汽时代的结束。
更新日期:2020-03-19
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