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Long-run trends in Australian executive remuneration : BHP, 1887-2012

Pottenger, Mike; Leigh, Andrew - In: Australian economic history review : a journal of … 56 (2016) 1, pp. 2-20

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Schooling is Associated not only with Longrun Wages, but also with Wage Risks and Disability Risks: The Pakistani Experience

Hyder, Asma; Behrman, Jere R. - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 4, pp. 555-573

Many studies document significantly positive associations between schooling attainment and wages in developing …-life path of wages, but a number of other occupational characteristics, including wage risks and disability risks, for which … there may be compensating wage differentials. This study examines the relations between schooling on one hand and mean wages …

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Survival of the literati : social status and reproduction in Ming-Qing China

Hu, Sijie - In: Journal of population economics : international … 36 (2023) 4, pp. 2025-2070

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Population, labour and living standards in early modern Ceylon: An empirical contribution to the divergence debate

Zwart, Pim de - In: The Indian Economic & Social History Review 49 (2012) 3, pp. 365-398

quantitative evidence on wages, prices, demography and occupations from the Dutch East India Company archives. It is shown that …

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Growth from Globalization? A View from the Very Long Run

Meissner, Christopher M. - In: Handbook of Economic Growth

What is the connection between different forms of globalization, economic growth, and welfare? International trade, cross-border capital flows, and labor movements are three areas in which economic historians have focused their research. I critically summarize various measures of international...

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Technology and the great divergence: Global economic development since 1820

Allen, Robert C. - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 1, pp. 1-16

The paper measures productivity growth in seventeen countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. GDP per worker and capital per worker in 1985 US dollars were estimated for 1820, 1850, 1880, 1913, and 1939 by using historical national accounts to back cast Penn World Table data for 1965...

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Real wages and the family: Adjusting real wages to changing demography in pre-modern England

Schneider, Eric B. - In: Explorations in Economic History 50 (2013) 1, pp. 99-115

adjust Allen's (2001) real wages to the changing demography of early modern England. Using parity progression ratios (a … measure how different families' real wages changed over the family life cycle as additional children were born. At the … family real wages in the economy. There are two main findings. First, pregnancy and lactation do not create cyclical effects …

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French revolution or industrial revolution? A note on the contrasting experiences of England and France up to 1800

Sharp, Paul R.; Weisdorf, Jacob L. - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 6 (2012) 1, pp. 79-88

At the end of the eighteenth century, England and France both underwent revolutions: France the French Revolution, England the industrial revolution. This note sheds new light on these contrasting experiences in the histories of England and France by looking at the evolution of real consumer...

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West versus Far East: early globalization and the great divergence

Dobado-González, Rafael; García-Hiernaux, Alfredo; … - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 9 (2015) 2, pp. 235-264

This paper addresses two important topics in recent economic historiography: globalization and the great divergence. We first present a search for statistical evidence in the Far East of an “Early Globalization” comparable to the one ongoing in the West since the mid-eighteenth century....

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Elite violence and elite numeracy in Europe from 500 to 1900 CE: roots of the divergence

Keywood, Thomas; Baten, Jörg - In: Cliometrica 15 (2020) 2, pp. 319-389

Our research expands earlier studies on elite human capital by widening the geographic scope and tracing the early roots of the European divergence. We present new evidence of elite numeracy in Europe since the sixth century CE. During the early medieval period, Western Europe had no advantage...

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