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Leaving Home and Entering Service: The Age of Apprenticeship in Early Modern London

Wallis, Patrick; Webb, Cliff; Minns, Chris - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

Leaving home and entering service was a key transition in early modern England. This paper presents evidence on the age of apprenticeship in London. Using a new sample of 22,156 apprentices bound between 1575 and 1810, we find that apprentices became younger (from 17.4 to 14.7 years) and more...

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Time and Productivity Growth in Services: How Motion Pictures Industrialized Entertainment

Bakker, Gerben - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

When taking into account time, services can experience similar productivity gains as manufacturing. Motion pictures …

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Structural Change and the Growth Contribution of Services: How Motion Pictures Industrialized US Spectator Entertainment

Bakker, Gerben - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

capital/labour ratio but paid lower wages. These findings suggest that some services can experience similar productivity gains …

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The Triumph and Denouement of the British Fiscal State: Taxation For the Wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815

O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

fell mainly on outlays made by its citizens, upon domestically produced commodities and services. Smaller proportions came … upon the volume of goods and services assessed to tax, economic forces which affected private expenditures in general, or … from commodities consumed either by the mass of the population or from goods and services preferred by more affluent groups …

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At the origins of increased productivity growth in services Productivity, social savings and the consumer surplus of the film industry, 1900-1938

Bakker, Gerben - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

This paper estimates and compares the benefits cinema technology generated to society in Britain, France and the US between 1900 and 1938. It is shown how cinema industrialised live entertainment, by standardisation, automation and making it tradable. The economic impact is measured in three...

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Apprenticeship and Training in Premodern England

Ransome-Wallis, Patrick - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This paper re-examines the economics of premodernapprenticeship in England. I present new data showing that ahigh proportion of apprenticeships in seventeenth centuryLondon ended before the term of service was finished. I thenpropose a new account of how training costs and repaymentswere...

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Contesting Democracy: Science Popularisation and Public Choice

Adams, Jon - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

During the same period in which political decisions became increasingly indistinguishable from decisions about science and technology, science and technology became increasingly incomprehensible to all but a few specialists. Maintaining a healthy participatory democracy under such conditions...

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Satisfaction and Expectations: Attitudes to publicservices in deprived areas

Duffy, Bobby - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

Based on outcomes for residents and qualitative studies, it is widelythought that public services meet the needs of … residents less well indeprived areas, and that this is due to both the demands placed onservices being greater and the services …

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Taxation For The Enabling State

Hills, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

changes in public spending, particularly on welfare services, in thepublic sector’s balance sheet, and the distributional …

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Neighbourhood Management

Power, Anne T.; Bergin, Emmet - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

The way we run urban neighbourhoods in Britain is a key to reversingsocial exclusion, crime and poor performance on almost every front inour cities. This study for the Social Exclusion Unit of seven models ofneighbourhood management analyses the reason for its key position inthe national...

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