Clark, Gregory - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2005
Industrial Revolution. Real wages were trendless before 1800, as would be predicted for the Malthusian era. Comparing wages with … the classic Industrial Revolution and even the arrival of modern democracy in 1689. Building wages also conflict with … human capital interpretations of the Industrial Revolution, as modeled by Becker et al. (1990), Galor and Weil (2000) and …