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

Claude Diebolt, Charlotte Le Chapelain (lechapelain@cournot.u-strasbg.fr) and Audrey Rose Menard (audrey.menard@univ-nantes.fr)
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Charlotte Le Chapelain: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - AgroParisTech - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, CLHDPP - Centre lyonnais d'Histoire du droit et de la pensée politique - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon
Audrey Rose Menard: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes

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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: Human Capital; Industrialization; Steam engines; Technological change; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-01
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Published in Cliometrica, 2021, 15 (1), pp.167-202. ⟨10.1007/s11698-019-00199-6⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s11698-019-00199-6

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