TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kim,Sukkoo
TI  - Division of Labor and the Rise of Cities: Evidence from U.S. Industrialization, 1850-1880
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12246
PY  - 2006
Y2  - May 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12246
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12246.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Sukkoo Kim
Department of Economics
Washington University
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Tel: 314/935-4961
Fax: 314/935-4156
E-Mail: soks@artsci.wustl.edu
AB  - Industrial revolution in the United States first took hold in rural New England as factories arose and grew in a handful of industries such as textiles and shoes. However, as factory scale economies rose and factory production techniques were adopted by an ever growing number of industries, industrialization became concentrated in cities throughout the Northeastern region which came to be known as the manufacturing belt. While it is extremely difficult to rule out other types of agglomeration economies such as spillovers, this paper suggests that these geographic developments associated with industrial revolution in the U.S. are most consistent with explanations based on division of labor, job search and matching costs.
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