Patrick Wallis, Justin Colson, and David Chilosi: Structural Change and Economic Growth in the British Economy before the Industrial Revolution, 1500–1800: "Male labor sectoral shares for England and Wales before 1800...
...using a large sample of probate and apprenticeship data.... England experienced a rapid decline in the share of workers in agriculture between the early seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, associated with rising agricultural and especially industrial productivity; Wales saw few changes. Our results show that England experienced unusually early structural change and highlight the mid-seventeenth century as a turning point...
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