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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026088
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452726
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249268
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307890
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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 engine -- on skill demand and the wage structure in the merchant shipping industry. We find that the technical change created a new demand for skilled workers, the engineers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002345208
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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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Industrialization under medieval conditions? : global development after COVID-19
Naudé, Wim - 2020
industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization … the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306216
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Cross sections are history
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
and a unique rate of diffusion throughout the world. Suppose too that initially all countries are fairly closely bunched … follower countries in the various parts of the world fall in line in a similar geographic order. The result will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730828
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Innovation and employment : a survey
Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2007
"According to the "compensation theory", market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is proposed through a detailed survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the subject. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451834
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What determines the share of labour in national income? : a cross-country analysis
Guerriero, Marta; Sen, Kunal - 2012
share around the world, in particular from the mid-1980s onwards. Using fixed effects regression methods on a panel dataset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548636