The complementary between technology and human capital in the early phase of industrialization

Raphael Franck and Oded Galor

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 ; This version: April 16th, 2015
Authors:	Franck, Raphaël ; Galor, Oded
Publisher:	[Providence, RI : Brown University, Department of Economics]
Subject:	Capital-Skill Complementarity \| Economic Growth \| Industrialization \| Human Capital \| Steam Engine \| Humankapital \| Human capital \| Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth \| Industrialisierung \| Technischer Fortschritt \| Technological change \| Dampfmaschine \| Steam engine

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (49 S.) graph. Darst., Kt.
Series:	Working papers / Brown University, Department of Economics. - Providence, RI : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2185003-3. - Vol. 2015-3]
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/145426 [Handle]
Classification:	N33 - Europe: Pre-1913 ; N34 - Europe: 1913- ; O14 - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology ; O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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