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Broadberry, Stephen and Burhop, Carsten. (2008) Resolving the Anglo-German industrial productivity puzzle, 1895-1935 : a response to Professor Ritschl. Journal of Economic History, Vol.68 (No.3). pp. 930-934. ISSN 0022-0507
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022050708000685
Abstract
This paper offers a critical appraisal of the claim of Ritschl (2008) to have found a “possible resolution” to what he calls the “Anglo-German industrial productivity puzzle”. To understand the origins of this term, it is necessary to describe some recent developments in comparisons of industrial labour productivity between Britain and Germany. The Anglo-German industrial productivity puzzle really arose as the result of a new industrial production index produced by Ritschl (2004), which differed very substantially from the widely used index of Hoffmann (1965). Broadberry and Burhop (2007) pointed out that if the Ritschl (2004) index is combined with an index of German employment from Hoffmann (1965) and time series of UK output and employment from Feinstein (1972), it implies an implausibly high German labour productivity lead over Britain in 1907, when projected back from a widely accepted Germany/UK labour productivity benchmark for 1935/36.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain D History General and Old World > DD Germany |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Labor productivity -- Germany, Labor productivity -- United Kingdom |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Economic History |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISSN: | 0022-0507 |
| Date: | 18 August 2008 |
| Volume: | Vol.68 |
| Number: | No.3 |
| Number of Pages: | 5 |
| Page Range: | pp. 930-934 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0022050708000685 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
| Version or Related Resource: | Broadberry, S. and Burhop, C. (2008) Resolving the Anglo-German industrial productivity puzzle, 1895-1935: a response to Professor Ritschl. [Coventry]: University of Warwick, Department of Economics. (Warwick economic research papers, no. 848). |
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| References: | Broadberry, Stephen N. The Productivity Race: British Manufacturing in International Perspective, 1870-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Broadberry, Stephen and Burhop, Carsten. “Comparative Productivity in British and German Manufacturing Before World War II: Reconciling Direct benchmark Estimates and Time Series Projections.” THIS JOURNAL 67, no. 2 (2007): 315-349. Fremdling, Rainer. “German Industrial Employment 1925, 1933, 1936 and 1939: A New Benchmark for 1936 and a Note on Hoffmann’s Tales.” Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, no.2 (2007): 171-195. Fremdling, Rainer, de Jong, Herman, and Timmer, Marcel. “Censuses Compared: A New Benchmark for British and German Manufacturing 1935/36.” THIS JOURNAL 67, no. 2 (2007): 350-378. Hoffmann, Walther G. Das Wachstum der deutschen Wirtschaft seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Springer, 1965. Ritschl, Albrecht. “Spurious Growth in German Output Data, 1913-1938.” European Review of Economic History 8 (2004): 201-223. ______. “The Anglo-German Industrial Productivity Puzzle, 1895-1935: A Restatement and a Possible Resolution.”, THIS JOURNAL, (forthcoming). |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/363 |
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