Journal of Economic History

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• The Impact of the 1896 Factory and Shops Act on the Labor Market of Victoria, Australia AI翻译
  作者：University of London; Royal Holloway University London; University of Melbourne
  摘要：This article examines the effects of the Victorian Factory and Shops Act, the first minimum wage law in Australia. The Act differed from modern minimum wage laws in that it established Special Boards, which set trade-specific minimum wage schedules. We use trade-level data on average wages and employment by gender and age to examine the effects of minimum wages. Although the minimum wages were binding, we find that the effects on employment were modest, at best. We speculate that this was beca...
• Rulers and Capital in Historical Perspective: State Formation and Financial Development in India and the United States AI翻译
  作者：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
• Bank Capital Redux: Solvency, Liquidity, and Crisis AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Bonn
• The Dissertations of Vellore Arthi, Carlos Hernandez, and Vincent Geloso 2017 Allan Nevins Prize Competition of the Economic History Association (vol 78, pg 575, 2018) AI翻译
  作者：Cook, Lisa
• Networks, Institutions, and Uncertainty: Information Exchange in Early-Modern Markets AI翻译
  作者：Yale University; University of Navarra; IESE Business School
  摘要：We analyze patterns of informal information exchange by the English East India Company's captains to assess the role of relational and institutional governance systems and uncertainty in encouraging information exchange. Using archival data from the emerging early-modern global trade network, we show that uncertainty drove information exchange. Relational-based contract enforcement mechanisms such as small group exchange were largely absent, and increasing institutional strength was associated...
• Capital Shares and Income Inequality: Evidence from the Long Run AI翻译
  作者：Lund University; University of Gothenburg; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN); Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); IZA Institute Labor Economics
  摘要：This article studies the long-run relationship between the capital share in national income and top personal income shares. Using a newly constructed historical cross-country database on capital shares and top income data, we find evidence on a strong, positive link that has grown stronger over the past century. The connection is stronger in Anglo-Saxon countries, in the very top of the distribution, when top capital incomes predominate, when using distributed top national income shares, and w...
• Wage Inflation in the Recovery from the Great Depression AI翻译
  作者：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
• Individual Investors and Portfolio Diversification in Late Victorian Britain: How Diversified Were Victorian Financial Portfolios? AI翻译
  作者：Open University - UK
  摘要：This article investigates Victorian investor financial portfolio strategies in England and Wales during the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that investors held on average about half of their gross wealth in the form of four or five liquid financial securities, but were reluctant to adopt fully contemporary financial advice to invest equal amounts in securities or to spread risk across the globe. They generally held under-diversified portfolios and proximity to their investments ...
• A Century of Wealth in America AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Riverside
• Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718: 'There is Great Want of Servants' AI翻译
  作者：University of Delaware