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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 …
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growth, the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914) in France. In this period, technology became skill-intensive, leading to …
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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 …
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Knowledge has become a crucial factor of production in the developed economies and, as humans are the carriers and utilisers of knowledge, skilled human resource is gaining similarly large relevance. These advancements are elements of the substantial changes that characterise the fourth...
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This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC). SBTC affects optimal taxes and subsidies by changing i) direct distributional benefits, ii) indirect redistributional effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education...
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This study investigates empirically how human capital, measured by educational attainment, is related to income distribution. The regressions, using a panel data set covering a broad range of countries between 1980 and 2015, show that a more equal distribution of education contributes...
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