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

Claude Diebolt, Charlotte Chapelain () and Audrey Rose Menard ()
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Charlotte Chapelain: Université de Lyon 3
Audrey Rose Menard: Chemin de la Censive du Tertre

Cliometrica, 2021, vol. 15, issue 1, No 6, 167-202

Abstract: 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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