Nach den aktuellen Prognosen, die auf der 61. Euroconstruct-Konferenz in Amsterdam im Juni vorgetragen wurden, hat sich die Stimmung im Bausektor deutlich aufgehellt. War man vor einem halben Jahr noch von einer Zunahme der Bauinvestitionen im Jahr 2006 um 1,5% ausgegangen, so wurden in den...

Bereits in den ersten Jahren dieses Jahrzehnts hat sich der Tiefbau gut entwickelt. Nach den Prognosen der Euroconstruct-Institute sind die Aussichten für die Jahre 2006 bis 2008 sogar noch besser: Der gesamte europäische Tiefbaumarkt wuchs 2005 um 1,7%. In diesem Jahr gehen die Schätzungen...

In this study we review the literature on the relationship between landownership inequality and the accumulation of human capital in historical perspective. Furthermore we provide new evidence on the relationship between landownership inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in...

This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the...

This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the...

We show that the creation of the first integrated pan-European transport network during Roman times influences economic integration over two millennia. Drawing on spatially highly disaggregated data on excavated Roman ceramics, we document that interregional trade was strongly influenced by...

We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate flexible difference-in-differences models exploiting variation in eligibility for insurance across occupations. Our...

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

This paper analyzes the long-term effect of technological diffusion on productivity caused by immigration of skilled workers. In 1685 religious persecution drove highly skilled Huguenots into the backward Brandenburg-Prussia where they established themselves and transferred technological...

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...