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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
de la Croix, David - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...
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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria : Evidence from Failed Firms
Fersterer, Josef - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS … selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. In order to overcome the resulting ability bias we estimate returns … to apprenticeship training for apprentices in failed firms in Austria. When a firm fails, current apprentices cannot …
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Financing Apprenticeship Training : Evidence from Germany
Harhoff, Dietmar; Kane, Thomas J. - 2021
Much of the current discussion promoting apprenticeship programs in the U.S. proceeds as if it is simply a matter of … system of apprenticeship training. Many German firms face large net costs of apprenticeship training. Yet they continue to …
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The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training
Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2022
compress the structure of wages in the general skills of their employees. The reason is that the distortion in the wage … wages and union wage setting, are crucial in shaping the wage structure thus have an important impact on training. Our …
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Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialization
Franck, Raphael - 2017
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
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Human Capital and Industrialization : Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment
Squicciarini, Mara - 2014
While human capital is a strong predictor of economic development today, its importance for the Industrial Revolution has typically been assessed as minor. To resolve this puzzling contrast, we differentiate average human capital (literacy) from upper-tail knowledge. As a proxy for the...
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Knowledge, Human Capital and Economic Development : Evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750-1930
Khan, B. Zorina - 2015
Endogenous growth models raise fundamental questions about the nature of human creativity, and the sorts of resources, skills, and knowledge inputs that shift the frontier of technology and production possibilities. Many argue that the nature of early British industrialization supports the...
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Human Resource Management and Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
In this handbook of labor economics chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such as matching (hiring and firing) and work...
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Separate and Unequal in the Labor Market : Human Capital and the Jim Crow Wage Gap
Carruthers, Celeste - 2016
The gap between black and white earnings is a longstanding feature of the United States labor market. Competing explanations attribute different weight to wage discrimination and access to human capital. Using new data on local school quality, we find that human capital played a predominant role...
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Cohort Patterns in Canadian Earnings : Assessing the Role of Skill Premia in Inequality Trends
Beaudry, Paul - 2008
conflicting with the hypothesis that increased skill-premium largely explains the observed increase in dispersion of male weekly …
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