Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialization

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human capital formation, generating wide-ranging gains in literacy rates and educational attainment

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Year of publication:	2017
Authors:	Franck, Raphael
Other Persons:	Galor, Oded (contributor)
Publisher:	[2017]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Humankapital \| Human capital \| Dampfmaschine \| Steam engine \| Frankreich \| France \| Industrialisierung \| Industrialization \| Technischer Fortschritt \| Technological change

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (73 p)
Series:	NBER Working Paper ; No. w23197
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments February 2017 erstellt
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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