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作者:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
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作者:Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要:We present the first estimates of the returns to years of schooling before 1940 using a large sample of individuals (from the 1915 Iowa State Census). The returns to a year of high school or college were substantial in 1915-about 11 percent for all males and in excess of 12 percent for young males. Education enabled individuals to enter lucrative white-collar jobs, but sizable educational wage differentials also existed within occupational groups. Returns were substantial even for those in far...
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作者:Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman
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作者:City University of New York (CUNY) System; Brooklyn College (CUNY)
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作者:Vanderbilt University
摘要:I use retrospective work histories from a unique dataset to follow workers in six cities through occupational, industrial, and geographic moves, thereby characterizing aspects of black economic mobility during the 1940s that cannot be viewed through the Census data. Relatively few migrants were drawn directly from the southern agricultural sector. Black occupational upgrades were larger than white upgrades on average but black upgrades were smaller than those of observationally similar whites....
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作者:Western University (University of Western Ontario)
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作者:University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
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作者:Colby College
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作者:Western University (University of Western Ontario); University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要:This study examines technical change, trade, economic structure, and growth during the British Industrial Revolution by means of computational general equilibrium (CGE) modeling. It rejects Peter Temin's contention that our new view of sectorally concentrated productivity growth is inconsistent with industrial export data. A CGE trade model with diminishing returns in agriculture and realistic assumptions about consumer demand shows that while technical change in cottons and iron were major sp...
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作者:Allegheny College