Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialization

Raphael Franck and Oded Galor

No 23197, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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 wide-ranging gains in literacy rates and educational attainment.

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Date: 2017-02
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Published as Raphaël Franck & Oded Galor, 2022. "Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialisation [Marrying up: the role of sex ratio in assortative matching]," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 132(642), pages 618-643.

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