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Creative Accounting in the British Industrial Revolution : Cotton Manufacturers and the ‘Ten Hours’ Movement
Toms, Steve; Shepherd, Alice - 2013
The paper examines an early case of creative accounting, and how, during British industrialization, accounting was enlisted by the manufacturers’ interest to resist demands, led by the ‘Ten hours’ movement, for limiting the working day. In contrast to much of the prior literature, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014151769
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International Migration and Development: A review in light of the crisis
Alonso, Jose Antonio - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2011
Increasing international migratory flows in the last four decades is one of the most visible manifestations of the globalization process. In spite of its potential positive effect on global efficiency and well-being, little progress has been made in designing and promoting a normative and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550920
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115995
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Education economics from a historical perspective
Schüler, Ruth M. - 2018
The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects prosperity and nation building in a setting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793439
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389349
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Market Forces Shaping Human Capital in Eighteenth Century London
Justman, Moshe; Beek, Karine van der - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2013
market forces of supply and demand. We regress apprenticeship premiums on journeymen’s wages, set-up costs, and a selection …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/10010858807
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England's Eighteenth Century Demand for High-Quality Workmanship: Evidence from Apprenticeship, 1710-1770
van der Beek, Karine - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, …
cCreation-Date: 2013-09
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903248
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Market Forces Shaping Human Capital in Eighteenth Century London
Justman, Moshe; van der Beek, Karine - 2013
market forces of supply and demand. We regress apprenticeship premiums on journeymen’s wages, set-up costs, and a selection …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/10014154586
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England's Eighteenth Century Demand for High-Quality Workmanship: Evidence from Apprenticeship, 1710-1770
van der Beek, Karine - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2013
from different sources that supports Mokyr's claim. Mainly, I use evidence on apprenticeship that covers all England …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700011
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The industrial revolution as the escape from the Malthusian trap
Komlos, John - 2003
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