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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 …

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Rodney Hilton, Marxism and the Transition From Feudalism to Capitalism

Epstein, Stephan R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

transition from feudal to capitalist modes of production, still carries considerable weight among like-minded historians.[...] …

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Reconstructing the Industrial Revolution: Analyses, Perceptions and Conceptions Of Britain’s Precocious Transition to Europe’s First Industrial Society

Riello, Giorgio; O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The Industrial Revolution continues to be analysed by economic historians deploying the conceptual vocabularies of modern social science, particularly economics. Their approach which gives priority to the elaboration of causes and processes of evolution is far too often and superficially...

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Welfare in Transition: Trends in Poverty andWell-being in Central Asia

Falkingham, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

This paper examines the impact of the transition from a planned toa market economy on living standards and welfare in … largenumbers of children and single parent families – the economicdislocation of transition has also given rise to new groups of …

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Do Democracies Select More Educated Leaders?

Besley, Timothy; Reynal-Querol, Marta - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper tests whether education levels di¤er between leadersselected in autocracies and democracies. We use a unique data seton over 1300 world leaders between 1848 and 2004 and exploit withincountry variation from transitions to and from democracy to show thatdemocracies pick more highly...

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Knowing what is good for you: Empirical analysis ofpersonal preferences and the “objective good”

Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper aims to test empirically if certain frequently used measures of wellbeing,which are regarded as valuable properties of human life, are actuallydesired by people. In other words, it investigates whether the “expertjudgments” in social science overlap with social consensus on what...

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The Effect of Unobservables on Labour Supply Decisions:The formal and informal sector during transition

Namazie, Ceema Zahra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

The transition from a command economy in the FSU resulted in increasedactivities in the informal sector. However …

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Why labour hoarding may be rational: A model offirm behaviour during transition

Namazie, Ceema Zahra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

In the Former Soviet Union, the early 1990s were characterized by largefalls in GDP and small changes to already low unemployment. The slowadjustment to unemployment was a result of employers using variousmeans to maintain employment levels, including; extended periods ofunpaid leave, reduced...

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Tasting freedom: Happiness, religion and economictransition

Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect allequally. This paper uses Hungarian survey data … to study the impact ofreligion and economic transition on happiness. Religious involvementcontributes positively to … of happiness for the religious. The impact ofeconomic transition has varied greatly across different groups. The …

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Informal Employment in Countries in Transition:A conceptual framework

Bernabè, Sabine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition hasincreasingly become the focus of research …

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