Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and-through input-output linkages and other general …

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function-physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … studies the role of the Catholic Church in European economic history since the medieval period. Taking advantage of newly … history. Third, many socioeconomic factors matter in the historical development of religions. …

reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously emerging new technologies. Our unique school-enrollment and factory-employment … Industrial Revolution. -- human capital ; industrialization ; Prussian economic history …

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This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database … unique source for micro-regional empirical research in economic history, enabling analyses of the importance of such factors … iPEHD is to provide the data in a digitized and structured way. -- economic history ; Prussia ; 19th century ; database …