Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

DOI

10.1002/ise3.1

Publication Title

International Studies of Economics

Volume

17

Issue

1

Pages

21-35

Abstract

The process of industrialization was accompanied by the switch from household production to firm production. The industrialization process was also a process of population growth, the appearance of general-purpose technologies, and the expansion of international trade. This paper studies the partition of production between households and firms in an analytically tractable general equilibrium model with a continuum of goods. We show that population growth, development of general-purpose technologies, and the opening of international trade increase the percentage of goods produced by firms. However, with the appearance of a technology biased toward home production, the percentage of goods produced by households can increase.

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© 2022 The Authors.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited

ORCID

0000-0002-1929-3347 (Zhou)

Original Publication Citation

Colburn, C., & Zhou, H. W. (2022). The partition of production between households and markets. International Studies in Economics, 17(1), 21-35. https://doi.org/10.1002/ise3.1

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