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Age heaping and numeracy : looking behind the curtain
Blum, Matthias; Krauss, Karl-Peter - 2017
Age heaping-based numeracy indicators have served as valuable tools to derive basic human capital estimates, especially for periods where other indicators are unavailable. However, the accuracy of individual age statements usually remains unknown, and due to the lack of precise information it...
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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 …
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German emigration via Bremen in the Weimar Republic (1920-1932)
Lumpe, Christian; Lumpe, Claudia - 2017
This paper analyzes the oversea emigration of German passengers via the port of Bremen in the period of theWeimar Republic (1920-1932). We use a novel micro-dataset of digitalized passengers lists including about 181,000 emigrants as an estimation of the outflow of Germans from the German Reich....
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Ploughs, Fairs and Skills : the Volga Germans and Technology Adoption in Late Imperial Russia
Natkhov, Timur - 2020
This paper examines knowledge spillovers across ethnic boundaries using the case of German immigration to the Russian Empire. We digitize the data on Saratov province in the early 20th century, and find that distance to German colonies predicts the prevalence of heavy iron ploughs, fanning mills...
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Institutions, Wages and Inequality : The Case of Europe and its Periphery (1500-1899)
Chor, Davin - 2005
using a two-sector model. When institutions improve, wages rise across the board, thus reducing the costs of rural … can in turn lead to a narrowing of the relative gap between skilled and unskilled wages. These predictions are borne out … by the historical data. Cities with stronger institutions experienced: (i) higher skilled and unskilled real wages, and …
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Skill choice and skill complementarity in eighteenth century England
Feldman, Naomi E.; Van Der Beek, Karine - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 59 (2016), pp. 94-113
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On-the-Job Training : Returns, Barriers to Provision, and Policy Implications
Saraf, Priyam - 2017
critical to their survival. This paper begins by confirming a significant and positive return from on-the-job training on wages …
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On-the-Job Training : Returns, Barriers to Provision, and Policy Implications
Saraf, Priyam - 2017
critical to their survival. This paper begins by confirming a significant and positive return from on-the-job training on wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246025
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The value of early-career skills
Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These plans provide more than 13,000 different skills and the exact duration of … skills acquired during apprenticeship are highly - yet differently - rewarded. We also document rising returns to digital and …
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