Karine van der Beek is a senior lecturer at the economics department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She specializes in European economic history and long-run economic growth with a specific interest in the technological change, human capital accumulation, and, political institutions. Karine obtained her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2007.

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The wheels of change: Human capital, millwrights, and industrialisation in 18th-century England
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- Economic history 
- Labour Markets