market forces of supply and demand. We regress apprenticeship premiums on journeymen's wages, set up costs and a selection of …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 …

trends in wellbeing.  If the rise in wages that followed the Black Death enticed female servants to delay marriage, it …

and trends in wellbeing. If the rise in wages that followed the Black Death enticed female servants to delay marriage, it …

affects labor markets in sending countries, particularly the wages of workers who do not emigrate. Most studies find that … emigration increases wages in the sending country but only for non-emigrants with substitutable skills similar to those of … country loses many highly educated workers, the economy can become less productive altogether, leading to lower wages for …

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 …

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 …

database of 21,557 observations of wages and 30,000 observations of prices in rural Denmark for men, women and children, and … for both skilled and unskilled workers over the eighteenth century. We construct nominal wages and deflate them using …

available to the scholarly community a uniquely detailed database of 20,152 observations of wages and 30,000 observations of …. We the proceed to illustrate two potential applications. First, we construct nominal wages and deflate them using Allen …'s constant consumer baskets. Real wages exhibit a considerable fall with the introduction of serfdom, and other changes …

1913 by examining the influence that globalisation factors had on agricultural and industrial wages. Our results show that … the nineteenth century grain invasion had a negative impact on agricultural wages, whereas the fall in wheat prices did … not benefit industry workers. We also found that migration pushed up real agricultural and industrial wages. As …

rising livestock product and other agrarian prices. It also demonstrates that the rise in real wages (agrarian) was partly …