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abstract: 'Using the Ensenada Cadastre, a unique database on Castilian households
circa 1750, this paper provides new evidence on the relationship between
human capital and male labor earnings in eighteenth-century Spain. Human
capital is proxied by individual indicators of basic skills (literacy
and numeracy) and of occupational skills. We employ a Mincerian
regression approach and find a positive and statistically significant
association between skills and average earnings. Although we cannot
reliably assess causality in the observed relationship, these findings
are robust to conditioning on household composition, job
characteristics, and place of residence. Nonetheless, further testing
indicates that the earnings gradient associated with literacy is driven
mainly by unobservable variables (e.g., ability, family background) that
explain both the worker''s acquisition of this skill and his earnings.
The estimated associations are stronger for urban than for rural workers
and are highly heterogeneous across activity sectors. Our analysis
reveals that workers with higher skills were not only better remunerated
in their main occupation but also more likely to diversify their
earnings through ``by-employment{''''}. Finally, quantile regression
analysis indicates that earnings disparities between workers with
different skills were much smaller at the lower than the upper end of
the earnings distribution. This evidence suggests that, in
pre-industrial Castile, human capital may have contributed to inequality
of earnings. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Palencia, FR (Corresponding Author), Univ Pablo Olavide, Dept Econ,
Carretera Utrera Km 1, Seville 41013, Spain.
Alvarez, Begona, Univ Vigo, Dept Appl Econ, Campus Lagoas Marcosende, Vigo 36310,
Spain.
Ramos Palencia, Fernando, Univ Pablo Olavide, Dept Econ, Carretera Utrera Km 1,
Seville 41013, Spain.'
author: Alvarez, Begona and Ramos Palencia, Fernando
author-email: 'alvarez@uvigo.es
fernando.ramos.palencia@gmail.com'
author_list:
- family: Alvarez
given: Begona
- family: Ramos Palencia
given: Fernando
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.eeh.2017.10.005
eissn: 1090-2457
files: []
issn: 0014-4983
journal: EXPLORATIONS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY
keywords: 'Literacy; Numeracy; Occupational skills; Pre-industrial Spain;
Individual earnings; Skill premia'
keywords-plus: 'TECHNOLOGICAL DIFFUSION; WESTERN-EUROPE; INEQUALITY; SPAIN; EDUCATION;
LITERACY; SKILLS; PARTICIPATION; 19TH-CENTURY; FERTILITY'
language: English
month: JAN
number-of-cited-references: '112'
orcid-numbers: 'Alvarez, Begoña/0000-0003-1756-7014
Ramos-Palencia, Fernando/0000-0002-4677-2730
Palencia, Fernando Ramos/0000-0002-4677-2730'
pages: 105-133
papis_id: 62b69d3116d269a2a90d3f57ba1b5424
ref: Alvarez2018humancapital
researcherid-numbers: 'Alvarez, Begoña/H-9724-2015
Ramos-Palencia, Fernando/E-8556-2016
Palencia, Fernando Ramos/N-5092-2019'
times-cited: '17'
title: Human capital and earnings in eighteenth-century Castile
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000424188200006
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '9'
volume: '67'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; History Of Social Sciences
year: '2018'