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The price of human capital in a pre-industrial economy: Premiums and apprenticeship contracts in 18th century England

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Training through apprenticeship provided the main mechanism for occupational human capital formation in pre-industrial England. This paper demonstrates how training premiums (fees) complemented the formal legal framework surrounding apprenticeship to secure training contracts. Premiums varied in...

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Discontinuities in Canadian economic growth, 1870-1985

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