market forces of supply and demand. We regress apprenticeship premiums on journeymen's wages, set up costs and a selection of …We draw on quantitative and descriptive data from Robert Campbell's widely cited manual for prospective apprentices …, The London Tradesman (1747), to demonstrate the responsiveness of apprenticeship in mid-eighteenth century London to …

Training through apprenticeship provided the main mechanism for occupational human capital formation in pre … apprenticeship to secure training contracts. Premiums varied in response to scarcity rents, the expected productivity of masters and … access to apprenticeship training for youths from modest families. …

market forces of supply and demand. We regress apprenticeship premiums on journeymen’s wages, set-up costs, and a selection …We draw on quantitative and descriptive data from Robert Campbell’s widely cited manual for prospective apprentices …, The London Tradesman (1747), to demonstrate the responsiveness of apprenticeship in mid-eighteenth century London to …

from different sources that supports Mokyr's claim. Mainly, I use evidence on apprenticeship that covers all England …

prosecutions. Following the abolition of criminal sanctions, wages differentially rose in counties that had experienced more … prosecutions, and wages responded more to labor demand shocks. Coercive contract enforcement was applied in industrial Britain …; restricted mobility allowed workers to commit to risk-sharing contracts with lower, but less volatile, wages. (JEL J31, J41, K12 …

trends in wellbeing.  If the rise in wages that followed the Black Death enticed female servants to delay marriage, it …