Neither the elite, nor the mass. The rise of intermediate human capital during the French industrialization process

Claude Diebolt, Charlotte Le Chapelain and Audrey Rose Menard

Working Papers of BETA from Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg

Abstract: This paper investigates the development of intermediate human capital in nineteenth century France. We perform panel and cross-section regression analyses to compare the effect of technological change on basic vs. intermediate human capital accumulation. Our contribution reveals that a shift in the kind of skills required occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century. We show that steam technology adoption was conducive to the accumulation of intermediate human capital in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Keywords: Cliometrics; Human Capital; Industrialization; France. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N13 N33 N73 N93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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