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Three revolutions of the modern era
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2019
The emergence and evolution of modern science since the 17th century has led to three major breakthroughs in the human condition. The first, the Industrial Revolution, started in the late 18th century and is based chiefly on developments associated with the rise of the natural sciences. The...
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The pandemic push : digital technologies and workforce adjustments
Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023
Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...
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Technology-skill complementarity in the early phase of industrialization
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2016
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …
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Africa's industrialization prospects : a fresh look
Naudé, Wim; Tregenna, Fiona - 2023
This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to 2018, using various … estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as …-shape relationship between industrialization and GDP per capita is consistent with (premature) de-industrialization. Technological change …
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The impact of ICT and robots on labour market outcomes of demographic groups in Europe
Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2022
We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of technology adoption, we utilise the variation in technology...
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People and machines : a look at the evolving relationship between capital and skill in manufacturing 1860 - 1930 using immigration shocks
Lafortune, Jeanne; Tessada, José A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2015
This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and unskilled workers, and then dramatically increased its...
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Technical change and the wage structure during the second industrial revolution : evidence from the merchant marine, 1865 - 1912
Chin, Aimee (contributor); Juhn, Chinhui (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"Using a large, individual-level wage data set, we examine the impact of a major technological innovation -- the steam …
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Factory automation, labor demand, and local labor market
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Okazaki, Tetsuji; Zhu, Xuanli - 2024
This study examines the impact of a technological change on employment and wages, focusing on the adoption of power looms in the silk-weaving industry. Exploiting plant-level panel data from 20th century Japan, we demonstrate that at the plant level, the power loom adaption increased the...
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ICT adoption and productivity in developing countries : new firm level evidence from Brazil and India
Basant, Rakesh; Commander, Simon; Harrison, Rupert; … - 2006
This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the …
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Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013
de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of …
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