Skip to main content

Results

You searched for:

Author: leunig; 

Search again

Return to Latest Publications

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Gibrat's Law and the British Industrial Revolution

This paper examines Gibrat’s law in England and Wales between 1801 and 1911 using a unique data set covering the entire settlement size distribution. We find that Gibrat’s law broadly holds even in the face of population...Read more...

Alexander Klein and Tim Leunig

25 September 2013

CentrePiece article
Sexism at work

Women have, on average, been less well-paid than men throughout history. Prior to 1900, most economic historians see the gender wage gap as a reflection of men’s greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. ...Read more...

Björn Eriksson, Tobias Karlsson, Tim Leunig and Maria Stanfors

19 December 2012

CentrePiece article
In brief... Cotton and cars: the huge gains from process innovation

New inventions are good for economic growth, but equally important are improvements in the way we make things - what's known as process innovation. Tim Leunig and Joachim Voth measure the impact of two such innovations -...Read more...

Tim Leunig and Hans-Joachim Voth

26 October 2011

CEP discussion paper
Gender, Productivity and the Nature of Work and Pay: Evidence from the Late Nineteenth-Century Tobacco Industry

Women have, on average, been less well-paid than men throughout history. Prior to 1900, most economic historians see the gender wage gap as a reflection of men’s greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. ...Read more...

Björn Eriksson, Tobias Karlsson, Tim Leunig and Maria Stanfors

June 2011

CEP discussion paper
Spinning Welfare: the Gains from Process Innovation in Cotton and Car Production

Economists and economic historians want to know how much better life is today than in the past. Fifty years ago economic historians found surprisingly small gains from 19th century US railroads, while more recently econo...Read more...

Tim Leunig and Hans-Joachim Voth

May 2011

CEP discussion paper
Networks in the Premodern Economy: the Market for London Apprenticeships, 1600-1749

This paper examines the importance of social and geographical networks in structuring entry into skilled occupations in premodern London. Using newly digitised records of those beginning an apprenticeship in London betwe...Read more...

Tim Leunig, Chris Minns and Patrick Wallis

November 2009

CentrePiece article
In brief... Train times

Are we better than the Victorians at running our railways? Tim Leunig investigates....Read more...

Tim Leunig

March 2009

CentrePiece article
Where To Build Britain's New Houses

The fast-growing cities of the Victorian age made Britain the workshop of the world. Tim Leunig argues that there are important lessons for how we manage today's economy, notably the need to end the highly restrictive pl...Read more...

Tim Leunig

May 2008