Minns, Chris

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Article
  • Antonie, Luiza, Inwood, Kris, Minns, Chris, Summerfield, Fraser (2025). The geography of economic mobility in 19th century Canada. Canadian Journal of Economics, [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Antonie, Luiza, Inwood, Kris, Minns, Chris, Summerfield, Fraser (2022). Intergenerational mobility in a mid-Atlantic economy: Canada,1871-1901. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1003 - 1029. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050722000353 picture_as_pdf
  • Antonie, Luiza, Inwood, Kris, Minns, Chris, Summerfield, Fraser (2020). Selection bias encountered in the systematic linking of historical census records. Social Science History, 44(3), 555 - 570. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2020.15
  • Prak, Maarten, Crowston, Clare, De Munck, Bert, Kissane, Christopher, Minns, Chris, Schalk, Ruben, Wallis, Patrick (2019). Access to the trade: monopoly and mobility in European craft guilds in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Journal of Social History, 54(2), 421-452. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shz070 picture_as_pdf
  • Minns, Chris, Crowston, Clare, De Kerf, Raoul, De Munck, Bert, Hoogenboom, Marcel, Kissane, Christopher, Prak, Maarten, Wallis, Patrick (2019). The extent of citizenship in pre-industrial England, Germany, and the low countries. European Review of Economic History, https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hez005 description
  • Inwood, Kris, Minns, Chris, Summerfield, Fraser (2019). Occupational income scores and immigrant assimilation. Evidence from the Canadian census. Explorations in Economic History, 72, 114-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2019.02.001 description
  • Hoogenboom, Marcel, Kissane, Christopher, Prak, Maarten, Wallis, Patrick, Minns, Chris (2018). Guilds in the transition to modernity: the cases of Germany, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Theory and Society, 47(3), 255-291. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-018-9316-8
  • Inwood, Kris, Minns, Chris, Summerfield, Fraser (2016). Reverse assimilation? Immigrants in the Canadian labour market during the Great Depression. European Review of Economic History, 20(3), 299 - 321. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hew005 picture_as_pdf
  • Minns, Chris, Rizov, Marian (2015). Institutions, history and wage bargaining outcomes: international evidence from the post-World War Two era. Business History, 57(3), 358-375. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2014.983480
  • Minns, Chris, Wallis, Patrick (2013). The price of human capital in a pre-industrial economy: premiums and apprenticeship contracts in 18th century England. Explorations in Economic History, 50(3), 335-350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2013.02.001
  • Klemp, Marc, Minns, Chris, Wallis, Patrick, Weisdorf, Jacob (2013). Picking winners? The effect of birth order and migration on parental human capital investments in pre-modern England. European Review of Economic History, 17(2), 210-232. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/het004
  • Minns, Chris, Wallis, Patrick (2012). Rules and reality: quantifying the practice of apprenticeship in premodern England. Economic History Review, 65(2), 556-579. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00591.x
  • Leunig, Tim, Minns, Chris, Wallis, Patrick (2011). Networks in the premodern economy: the market for London apprenticeships, 1600-1749. Journal of Economic History, 71(2), 413-443. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050711001586
  • Wallis, Patrick, Webb, Cliff, Minns, Chris (2010). Leaving home and entering service: the age of apprenticeship in early modern London. Continuity and Change, 25(3), 377-404. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416010000299
  • Minns, Chris (2007). The times they are not changing: days and hours of work in old and new worlds. Explorations in Economic History, 44(4), 538-567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2007.03.002
  • Minns, Chris, MacKinnon, Mary (2007). The costs of doing hard time: a penitentiary-based regional price index for Canada, 1883–1923. Canadian Journal of Economics, 40(1), 528-560. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.00420.x
  • Minns, Chris, Rizov, Marian (2005). The spirit of capitalism? Ethnicity, religion, and self-employment in early 20th century Canada. Explorations in Economic History, 42(2), 259-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2004.07.002
  • Minns, Chris, Green, Alan, MacKinnon, Mary (2005). Conspicuous by their absence: French Canadians and the settlement of the Canadian West. Journal of Economic History, 65(3), 822-849. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050705000306
  • Minns, Chris (2005). Immigration policy and the skills of Irish immigrants: evidence and the implications. Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 34(158th), 82-114.
  • Minns, Chris (2003). Review of 'Immigration and American unionism' by V. Briggs Jr. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 57(1), 148-150.
  • Green, Alan G., MacKinnon, Mary, Minns, Chris (2002). Dominion or republic? Migrants to North America from the United Kingdom, 1870–1910. Economic History Review, 55(4), 666 - 696. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0289.00236
  • Minns, Chris (2000). Income, cohort effects, and occupational mobility: a new look at immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th century. Explorations in Economic History, 37(4), 326-350. https://doi.org/10.1006/exeh.2000.0746
    • Chapter
  • Minns, Chris (2025). Institutions and economic development on the northern frontier: the economic history of colonialism in Canada. In Frankema, E. & Roy, T. (Eds.), Handbook of the Economic History of Colonialism . Routledge. [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Inwood, Kris, MacKinnon, Mary, Minns, Chris (2014). Labour market dynamics in Canada, 1891-1911: a first look from new Census samples. In Darroch, G. (Ed.), The Dawn of Canada's Century: Hidden Histories (pp. 361-395). McGill-Queen's University Press.
    • Dataset
  • Minns, Chris, Antonie, Luiza, Inwood, Kris, Summerfield, Fraser (2025). Replication Data and Code for: The geography of economic mobility in 19th Century Canada. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.5683/sp3/r4amsv
  • Minns, Chris, Antonie, Luiza, Inwood, Kris, Summerfield, Fraser (2022). Linked Canadian Census records 1871-1901. [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e165781
  • Minns, Chris, Inwood, Kris, Summerfield, Fraser (2018). Occupation Scores in Canada 1911-31. [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e107288v2
    • Working paper
  • Antonie, Luiza, Inwood, Kris, Minns, Chris, Summerfield, Fraser (2024). The geography of economic mobility in 19th century Canada. (Economic History Working Papers 373). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Escamilla Guerrero, David, Lepistö, Miko, Minns, Chris (2022). Explaining gender differences in migrant sorting: evidence from Canada-US migration. (Economic History working papers 347). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science. [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Antonie, Luiza, Inwood, Kris, Minns, Chris, Summerfield, Fraser (2021). Intergenerational mobility in a mid-Atlantic economy: Canada, 1871-1901. (Economic History Working Papers 319). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Inwood, Kris, Minns, Chris, Summerfield, Fraser (2018). Occupational income scores and immigration assimilation. Evidence from the Canadian census. (Working Papers 2018 292). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Prak, Maarten, Crowston, Clare, De Munck, Bert, Kissane, Christopher, Minns, Chris, Schalk, Ruben, Wallis, Patrick (2018). Access to the trade: monopoly and mobility in European craft guilds, 17th and 18th centuries. (Economic History working papers 282/2018). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Inwood, Kris, Minns, Chris, Summerfield, Fraser (2014). Reverse assimilation? Immigrants in the Canadian labour market during the Great Depression. (Economic History working paper series 205/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Minns, Chris, Wallis, Patrick (2011). Why did (pre‐industrial) firms train?: premiums and apprenticeship contracts in 18th century England. (Economic History working papers 155/11). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Inwood, Kris, MacKinnon, Mary, Minns, Chris (2010). Labour market dynamics in Canada, 1891-1911: a first look from new census samples. (Economic History Working Papers 148/10). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Wallis, Patrick, Webb, Cliff, Minns, Chris (2009). Leaving home and entering service: the age of apprenticeship in early modern London. (Economic History Working Papers 125/09). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Minns, Chris, Wallis, Patrick (2009). Rules and reality: quantifying the practice of apprenticeship in early modern Europe. (Economic History Working Papers 118/09). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • MacKinnon, Mary, Minns, Chris (2009). The impact of school provision on pupil attendance: evidence from the early 20th century. (Economic History Working Papers 116/09). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Leunig, Tim, Minns, Chris, Wallis, Patrick (2009). Networks in the premodern economy: the market for London apprenticeships, 1600-1749. (CEP Discussion Paper 956). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • MacKinnon, Mary, Minns, Chris (2009). School resources and schooling outcomes in a frontier society: evidence from British Columbia, 1900-19201. (Economic History working papers 116/09). London School of Economics and Political Science.