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Capital-skill complementarity and the emergence of labor emancipation
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Galor, Oded; … - 2017
acquisition, without fear of losing their skill premium to expropriation. In line with the proposed hypothesis, exploiting a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624571
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Capital-skill complementarity and the emergence of labor emancipation
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Galor, Oded; … - 2017
acquisition, without fear of losing their skill premium to expropriation. In line with the proposed hypothesis, exploiting a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638304
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Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2017
acquisition, without fear of losing their skill premium to expropriation. In line with the proposed hypothesis, exploiting a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956802
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Creative Accounting in the British Industrial Revolution : Cotton Manufacturers and the ‘Ten Hours’ Movement
Toms, Steve; Shepherd, Alice - 2013
The paper examines an early case of creative accounting, and how, during British industrialization, accounting was enlisted by the manufacturers’ interest to resist demands, led by the ‘Ten hours’ movement, for limiting the working day. In contrast to much of the prior literature, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014151769
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Artisanal skills, watchmaking, and the Industrial Revolution : Prescot and beyond
Cummins, Neil; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019
southwest Lancashire in the eighteenth century and their links to apprenticeship. The flexibility of the training regime and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115995
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Education economics from a historical perspective
Schüler, Ruth M. - 2018
The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects prosperity and nation building in a setting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793439
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Market Forces Shaping Human Capital in Eighteenth Century London
Justman, Moshe; van der Beek, Karine - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154586
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The industrial revolution as the escape from the Malthusian trap
Komlos, John - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440942
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The complementary between technology and human capital in the early phase of industrialization
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This Version: July 21st, 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309633
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Industrialization and the fertility decline
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This Version: August 26th, 2015
The research provides the first empirical examination of the hypothesized effect of industrialization on the fertility decline. Exploiting exogenous source of regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that industrialization was a major catalyst in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333033