Pleijt, Alexandra M. de; Weisdorf, Jacob L. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2015
We use HISCLASS to code the occupational titles of over 30,000 English male workers according to the skill-content of their work. We then track the evolution of the sampled working skills across three centuries of English history, from 1550 to 1850. We observe a modest rise in the share of...