The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Industrial Times

Ömer Özak and Emilio Depetris-Chauvin

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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.

Date: 2020-07-06
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Journal Article: The origins of the division of labor in pre-industrial times (2020)
Working Paper: The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Industrial Times (2018)
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DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/k59wg

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