Investigación
calendar_month Publicación: 13/11/2023
The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Industrial Times
Autor: Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak
Abstract: This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. Exploiting a variety of identification strategies and a novel ethnic level dataset combining geocoded ethnographic, linguistic and genetic data, it shows that higher levels of intra-ethnic diversity were conducive to economic specialization in the pre-modern era. The findings are robust to a host of geographical, institutional, cultural and historical confounders, and suggest that variation in intra-ethnic diversity is a key predictor of the division of labor in pre-modern times.
Fuente: Journal of Economic Growth
