"The Complementary between Technology and Human Capital in the Early Phase 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 broad increases in literacy rates and education attainment.

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Franck, Raphael ; Galor, Oded
Institutions:	Brown University, Department of Economics
Subject:	Capital-Skill Complementarity \| Economic Growth \| Industrialization \| Human Capital \| Steam Engine

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 2015-3
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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