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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w14484 |
来源ID | Working Paper 14484 |
Luddites and the Demographic Transition | |
Kevin H. O'; Rourke; Ahmed S. Rahman; Alan M. Taylor | |
发表日期 | 2008-11-13 |
出版年 | 2008 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Technological change was unskilled-labor-biased during the early Industrial Revolution, but is skill-biased today. This is not embedded in extant unified growth models. We develop a model which can endogenously account for these facts, where factor bias reflects profit-maximizing decisions by innovators. Endowments dictate that the early Industrial Revolution be unskilled-labor-biased. Increasing basic knowledge causes a growth takeoff, an income-led demand for fewer educated children, and the transition to skill-biased technological change. The simulated model tracks British industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries and generates a demographic transition without relying on either rising skill premia or exogenous educational supply shocks. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand ; History ; Macroeconomic History ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14484 |
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/572159 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kevin H. O',Rourke,Ahmed S. Rahman,et al. Luddites and the Demographic Transition. 2008. |
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