| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w10728 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 10728 |
| Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912 | |
| Aimee Chin; Chinhui Juhn; Peter Thompson | |
| 发表日期 | 2004-09-06 |
| 出版年 | 2004 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | 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 able-bodied 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. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w10728 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/568360 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Aimee Chin,Chinhui Juhn,Peter Thompson. Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912. 2004. |
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| w10728.pdf（563KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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