Apprenticeship and Training in Premodern England
重新审视前现代英格兰学徒制的经济学，利用新数据发现17世纪伦敦大量学徒合同提前终止，并提出一个解释培训成本与回报如何分配以避免双方重大损失的机制。
This article reexamines the economics of premodern apprenticeship in England. I present new data showing that a high proportion of apprenticeships in seventeenth-century London ended before the term of service was finished. I then propose a new account of how training costs and repayments were distributed over the apprenticeship contract such that neither master nor apprentice risked significant loss from early termination. This new account fits both the characteristics of premodern apprenticeship and what is known about the acquisition of skills in modern and premodern societies.