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Title: Comparative Advantage in UK Manufacturing Trade, 1910-1935

Author(s): Nicholas Crafts and Stephen H Thomas

Publication Date: October 1985

Keyword(s): Comparative Advantage, Factor Endowments and Structural Change

Programme Area(s): Human Resources

Abstract: This paper uses a maintained hypothesis of comparative advantage based on relative factor endowments to investigate UK manufacturing trade prior to World War II. The results from several independent tests indicate that Britain exported goods intensive in the use of unskilled labour and had a comparative disadvantage in goods intensive in the use of human capital right up to the mid 1930s. This is consistent with the views of contemporaries but somewhat at odds with recent optimistic assessments of structural change in pre-war Britain.

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Crafts, N and Thomas, S. 1985. 'Comparative Advantage in UK Manufacturing Trade, 1910-1935'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=83