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"Profits and capital stock information from tax-lists . Germany (1878-1913)"

 

Nearly no other economic-ancient phenomenon have engaged the research like this one:
The rise of Germany from a poor country to a developed country from the late 19.century until the 20.century.The analysis of the German rise based on numerousness (7000 companies) of data from different companies. Particularly data from industrial-and service-companies are acquired in one data base.
Tax-documents are used for the analysis for the first time. The data contain tax-lists and the trade control.
The data contain the name of the companies, the weight of the administration unit, where the company is placed and the branch of trade. The data are ordered by the names of the companies and where the companies are placed. You can click on our project homepage for more informations.

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