| dc.creator |
Chin, Aimee |
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| dc.creator |
Juhn, Chinhui |
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| dc.creator |
Thompson, Peter |
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| dc.date |
2004 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-16T07:11:06Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-10-16T07:11:06Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-10-16 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20551 |
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| dc.identifier |
ppn:460242628 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20551 |
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| dc.description |
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. |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.publisher |
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| dc.relation |
IZA Discussion paper series 1285 |
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| dc.rights |
http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| dc.subject |
H52 |
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| dc.subject |
J62 |
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| dc.subject |
I21 |
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| dc.subject |
ddc:330 |
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| dc.subject |
wage inequality |
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| dc.subject |
skill premium |
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| dc.subject |
skill-biased technical change |
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| dc.subject |
Technischer Fortschritt |
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| dc.subject |
Lohnstruktur |
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| dc.subject |
Industrialisierung |
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| dc.subject |
Schifffahrt |
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| dc.subject |
Kanada: Atlantikküste |
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| dc.title |
Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution : Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912 |
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| dc.type |
doc-type:workingPaper |
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