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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Chin, Aimee | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Juhn, Chinhui | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Thompson, Peter | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2009-01-28T16:14:56Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2009-01-28T16:14:56Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2004 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20551 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | Using a large, individual-level wage data set, we examine the impact of a major technological innovation – the steam engine – on skill demand and the wage structure in the merchant shipping industry. We find that the technical change created a new demand for skilled workers, the engineers, while destroying demand for workers with skills relevant only to sail. It had a deskilling effect on production work – able-bodied seamen (essentially, artisans) were replaced by unskilled engine room operatives. On the other hand, mates and ablebodied seamen employed on steam earned a premium relative to their counterparts on sail. A wholesale switch from sail to steam would increase the 90/10 wage ratio by 40%, with most of the rise in inequality coming from the creation of the engineer occupation. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | IZA Discussion paper series 1285 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | H52 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J62 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | I21 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | wage inequality | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | skill premium | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | skill-biased technical change | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Technischer Fortschritt | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Lohnstruktur | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Industrialisierung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Schifffahrt | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Kanada: Atlantikküste | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution : Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912 | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 460242628 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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