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Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution : Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912

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


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