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of the spinning jenny in Catalonia. First, we supply series of real wages in Barcelona for the period 1500-1808 in line … wages created strong incentives for adopting the labour-saving spinning jenny …
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and trends in wellbeing. If the rise in wages that followed the Black Death enticed female servants to delay marriage, it …
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This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
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This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448139
We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3-4 percent during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during the 1990s, reaching 8.5 percent by 2000. Our analysis...
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Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …
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Between 2004 and 2018, the spread of wages in Mexico's private labor sector remained stable. Nonetheless, the …
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This paper presents new estimations of wages for Normandy between 1600 and 1850. We used a vast array of primary and … secondary sources to assemble two new databases on wages and commodity prices to establish a new regional consumer price index … resulting labour shortage, led to a convergence of wages across unskilled occupations and a relative catch-up with urban skilled …
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Existing series suggest wages in London were substantially higher than in other European cities from 1650 to 1800. This … and organisational context in which it was recorded. Institutional records of wages were profoundly affected by structural … changes in the seventeenth century, particularly the emergence of building contractors. The actual wages paid to London …
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present the internal structure of the careers and wages of civil servants in the Dutch East India Company in the eighteenth …
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