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Occupational choice and the spirit of capitalism
Doepke, Matthias (contributor);  … - 2007
industrialization transforms the economic landscape. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586551
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For want of a cup: the rise of tea in England and the impact of water quality on mortality
Antman, Francisca M. - 2022
This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805554
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Women workers in essential British metal and chemical industries during the Second World War and the immediate post-war years
Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, Elizabeth J. - 2023
Group 1 metal and chemical industries formed the essential suppliers of British war materials during WW2. Their industrial sectors covered metal manufacture, general and electrical engineering, vehicle production, aircraft production, shipbuilding, metal goods, chemicals and explosives, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335836
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The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security
Caucutt, Elizabeth M. (contributor);  … - 2008
cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759906
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Catch me if you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the … Industrial Revolution. -- Human capital ; industrialization ; Prussian economic history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003916475
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Three revolutions of the modern era
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2019
The emergence and evolution of modern science since the 17th century has led to three major breakthroughs in the human condition. The first, the Industrial Revolution, started in the late 18th century and is based chiefly on developments associated with the rise of the natural sciences. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026088
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The end of destitution
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2009
The paper presents a statistical generalisation, to working families in the whole of Britain, of Rowntree's finding that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary social investigators and two relatively newly-discovered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879330
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Real wages, working time, and the great depression : what does micro evidence tell us?
Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2010
Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...
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General human capital and employment adjustment in the great depression: apprentices and journeymen in UK engineering
Hart, Robert A. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001766925
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Is industrialization conducive to long-run prosperity?
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015
This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … the French industrial revolution, the research establishes that regions in which industrialization was more intensive …. Nevertheless, intensive industrialization has had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by the turn of …
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