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:	2016
Authors:	Franck, Raphael
Other Persons:	Galor, Oded (contributor)
Publisher:	[2016]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Humankapital \| Human capital \| Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth \| Technischer Fortschritt \| Technological change \| Industrialisierung \| Industrialization

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (58 p)
Series:	CESifo Working Paper Series ; No. 5485
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments August 21, 2015 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.2663326 [DOI]
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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