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Market Forces Shaping Human Capital in Eighteenth Century London
van der Beek, Karine; Justman, Moshe - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903249
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The price of human capital in a pre-industrial economy: Premiums and apprenticeship contracts in 18th century England
Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick - In: Explorations in Economic History 50 (2013) 3, pp. 335-350
Training through apprenticeship provided the main mechanism for occupational human capital formation in pre … apprenticeship to secure training contracts. Premiums varied in response to scarcity rents, the expected productivity of masters and … access to apprenticeship training for youths from modest families. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681820
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669765
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Brain drain and brain gain in Italy and Ireland in the age of mass migration
Gomellini, Matteo; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019
Emigrants from Italy and Ireland contributed disproportionately to the Age of Mass Migration. That their departure improved the living standards of those they left behind is hardly in doubt. Nevertheless, a voluminous literature on the selectivity of migrant flows - both from sending and...
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The fall of Constantinople and the rise of the West
Link, Andreas - 2023
The Renaissance era in Western Europe was marked by a flourishing of economic and cultural life that gave rise to numerous discoveries and inventions. This paper studies the role played by Greek migrants in this process. Using a newly constructed dataset on Greek migrants in Europe after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014227815
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Poor, Hungry and Ignorant: Numeracy and the Impact of High Food Prices in Industrializing Britain, 1780-1850
Baten, Jörg; Crayen, Dorothee; Voth, Joachim - 2010
This paper uses the ability to recall one's age correctly as an indicator of numeracy. We show that low levels of nutrition impaired numeracy in industrializing England, 1780-1850. Numeracy declined markedly among those born during the war years, especially where wheat was dear. England's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271808
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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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Numeracy and the Impact of High Food Prices in Industrializing Britain, 1780–1850
Baten, Jorg; Crayen, Dorothee; Voth, Hans-Joachim - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) July, pp. 418-430
Using census-based data on the ability to recall one's age, we show that low levels of nutrition impaired numeracy in industrializing England, 1780 to 1850: cognitive ability declined among those born during the Napoleonic wars. The effect was stronger in areas where grain was expensive and...
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