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Human Capital and Industrialization : Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment
Squicciarini, Mara - 2014
the famous Encyclopédie in mid-18th century France. We show that subscriber density is a strong predictor of city growth … after the onset of French industrialization. Alternative measures of development such as soldier height, disposable income …
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Human Capital and Industrialization : Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment
Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2014
the famous Encyclopédie in mid-18th century France. We show that subscriber density is a strong predictor of city growth … after the onset of French industrialization. Alternative measures of development such as soldier height, disposable income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458447
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Covid-19 Pandemic, 4th industrial revolution and human capital development
Rahman, Mohammad Anisur - In: Bangladesh journal of political economy 37 (2021) 2, pp. 41-57
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Trade, technology, and the great divergence
Taylor, Alan M.; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Rahman, … - 2019
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Human capital and industrialization : evidence from the age of enlightenment
Squicciarini, Mara P.; Voigtländer, Nico - 2014
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Human capital and industrialization : evidence from the age of enlightenment
Squicciarini, Mara P.; Voigtländer, Nico - In: The quarterly journal of economics 130 (2015) 4, pp. 1825-1883
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The wheels of change : technology adoption, millwrights, and persistence in Britain's industrialization
Van Der Beek, Karine; Mokyr, Joel; Sarid, Assaf - 2019
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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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Technology and skill : twin engines of growth
Stokey, Nancy L. - In: Review of economic dynamics 40 (2021), pp. 12-43
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Optimal linear income taxation and education subsidies under skill-biased technical change
Jacobs, Bas; Thuemmel, Uwe - 2020
This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC). SBTC affects optimal taxes and subsidies by changing i) direct distributional benefits, ii) indirect redistributional effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education...
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