Technical change and the wage structure during the second industrial revolution : evidence from the merchant marine, 1865 - 1912
Aimee Chin ...
"Using a large, individual-level wage data set, we examine the impact of a major technological innovation -- the steam engine -- on skill demand and the wage structure in the merchant shipping industry. We find that the technical change created a new demand for skilled workers, the engineers, while destroying demand for workers with skills relevant only to sail. It had a deskilling effect on production work -- able-bodied seamen (essentially, artisans) were replaced by unskilled engine room operatives. On the other hand, mates and able-bodied seamen employed on steam earned a premium relative to their counterparts on sail. A wholesale switch from sail to steam would increase the 90/10 wage ratio by 40%, with most of the rise in inequality coming from the creation of the engineer occupation"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site
Year of publication: |
Sept. 2004 ; [Elektronische Ressource]
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Other Persons: | Chin, Aimee (contributor) ; Juhn, Chinhui (contributor) ; Thompson, Peter (contributor) |
Publisher: |
Bonn : IZA |
Subject: | Kanada (Atlantikprovinzen) | Atlantic Canada | Technischer Fortschritt | Technological change | Lohnstruktur | Wage structure | Industrialisierung | Industrialization | Schifffahrt | Shipping |
Saved in:
freely available
Extent: | Online Ressource, 48 p., text ill |
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Series: | Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. 1285 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat reader |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002345208