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Networks paving the way: Apprenticeship, guilds, and access to mastership in early modern Genoa

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how kinship and professional networks shaped labour market outcomes in the guild‐based labour market of early modern Genoa. Using a newly constructed dataset of more than 8,000 apprenticeship contracts (1451–1530), I examine the extent to which family and guild connections influenced apprentices' chances of attaining ...
Alessandro Brioschi
wiley   +1 more source

Social Buffering of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Longitudinal Effects and Neural Mediators. [PDF]

Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging
Santos JLC, Harnett NG, van Rooij SJH, Ely TD, Jovanovic T, Lebois LAM, Beaudoin FL, An X, Neylan TC, Linnstaedt SD, Germine LT, Bollen KA, Rauch SL, Haran JP, Storrow AB, Lewandowski C, Musey PI, Hendry PL, Sheikh S, Jones CW, Punches BE, Pascual JL, Seamon MJ, Harris E, Pearson C, Peak DA, Merchant RC, Domeier RM, Rathlev NK, O'Neil BJ, Sergot P, Sanchez LD, Bruce SE, Pizzagalli DA, Harte SE, Ressler KJ, Koenen KC, McLean SA, Stevens JS.   +38 more
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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
wiley   +1 more source

Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies: What we know, what we don't (but should) know

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years economic inequality has become a major research topic in economic history. However, much remains to be done to complete our knowledge of long‐term distributive dynamics. This article highlights several promising avenues for future research, focusing on the preindustrial period.
Guido Alfani
wiley   +1 more source

"We Listen to Women's Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence, but We Stop Them When It Comes to Sexual Violence:" Training Needs of Shelter Workers. [PDF]

Violence Against Women
Couture S, Brodeur G, Fernet M, Hébert M, Flynn C, Lafortune L.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes
Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa
wiley   +1 more source

The Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection (PRECEDE) Study is a Global Effort to Drive Early Detection: Baseline Imaging Findings in High-Risk Individuals. [PDF]

J Natl Compr Canc Netw
Zogopoulos G, Haimi I, Sanoba SA, Everett JN, Wang Y, Katona BW, Farrell JJ, Grossberg AJ, Paiella S, Klute KA, Bi Y, Wallace MB, Kwon RS, Stoffel EM, Wadlow RC, Sussman DA, Merchant NB, Permuth JB, Golan T, Raitses-Gurevich M, Lowy AM, Liau J, Jeter JM, Lindberg JM, Chung DC, Earl J, Brentnall TA, Schrader KA, Kaul V, Huang C, Chandarana H, Smerdon C, Graff JJ, Kastrinos F, Kupfer SS, Lucas AL, Sears RC, Brand RE, Parmigiani G, Simeone DM, PRECEDE Consortium.   +40 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Remote investing in Latin America, 1869–1929

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Substantial amounts of British capital flowed to Latin America during the first era of globalization. Companies financed by this capital were typically headquartered in the United Kingdom, but operated thousands of miles away. This paper asks how this geographic separation between governance and business activities affected the valuation of ...
Gareth Campbell, Áine Gallagher, Richard S. Grossman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epidemiology of Intestinal Parasitic Infections Among Sengota Primary Schoolchildren in Dendi District, West Shoa Zone, Ethiopia. [PDF]

J Parasitol Res
Tolera T, Bekele D, Yohanes T, Tesfaye S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Community knowledge and attitude towards mental illness and its associated factors in Dodoma urban central Tanzania: A cross-sectional study. [PDF]

PLOS Ment Health
Donard Oguma E, Eliufoo Stephano E, Vincent Moshi F, Sevin Lyimo O, Kibusi SM.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source