The study develops two new real wages series for Germany c. 1500-1850 and analyzes their relationship with population …

the movement of wages and wage earners over a long period and use this to make an original estimate of aggregate … concerning the way is which wages, wage earners and aggregate employment earnings in Germany are linked to the socioeconomic …. The first defines the concept of wages, sets out the spatial scope and describes the methodological constraints. The …

This paper assesses the potential of "workplace training" with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational … broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the effectiveness of apprenticeship using a large administrative dataset. We find … returns to apprenticeship for even the lowest ability school-leavers comparable to standard estimates of the return to school …