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
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Charlotte Le Chapelain: Centre Lyonnais des Historiens du Droit et de la Pensée Politique, Bureau d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée, Université de Lyon 3, 6 Cours Albert-Thomas, 69355, Lyon Cedex 08, France
Audrey Rose Menard: Laboratoire d’Economie et de Management Nord-Atlantique, Chemin de la Censive du Tertre, 44000, Nantes, France

Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, 2021, vol. 15, issue 1, 167-202

Abstract: This paper investigates the development of intermediate human capital in nineteenth-century France. We perform panel and cross-sectional regression analyses to compare the effect of technological change on basic versus 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: Human Capital; Industrialization; Steam engines; Technological change; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 C18 C80 I21 N13 N33 N73 N93 O14 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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