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dc.contributor.author | Chin, Aimee | en |
dc.contributor.author | Juhn, Chinhui | en |
dc.contributor.author | Thompson, Peter | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-01-28T16:14:56Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-01-28T16:14:56Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | - |
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 technologicalinnovation – the steam engine – on skill demand and the wage structure in the merchantshipping industry. We find that the technical change created a new demand for skilledworkers, 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 ablebodiedseamen employed on steam earned a premium relative to their counterparts on sail. Awholesale switch from sail to steam would increase the 90/10 wage ratio by 40%, with mostof the rise in inequality coming from the creation of the engineer occupation. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonn | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aIZA Discussion Papers |x1285 | en |
dc.subject.jel | H52 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J62 | en |
dc.subject.jel | I21 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | wage inequality | en |
dc.subject.keyword | skill premium | en |
dc.subject.keyword | skill-biased technical change | en |
dc.subject.stw | Technischer Fortschritt | en |
dc.subject.stw | Lohnstruktur | en |
dc.subject.stw | Industrialisierung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Schifffahrt | en |
dc.subject.stw | Kanada: Atlantikküste | en |
dc.title | Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution : Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912 | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 460242628 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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