Falling real wages during an industrial revolution

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  • dc.contributor.author Ciccone, Antonioca
  • dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
  • dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T10:50:06Z
  • dc.date.available 2017-07-26T10:50:06Z
  • dc.date.issued 1996-10-01
  • dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:02:50Z
  • dc.description.abstract The Industrial Revolution was characterized by technological progress and an increasing capital intensity. Why did real wages stagnate or fall in the beginning? I answer this question by modeling the Industrial Revolution as the introduction of a relatively more capital intensive production method in a standard neoclassical framework. I show that {\sl real wages fall in the beginning of an industrial revolution if and only if technological progress in the relatively more capital intensive sector is relatively fast.}
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  • dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=195
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/1044
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 195
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  • dc.subject.keyword industrial revolution
  • dc.subject.keyword technological change
  • dc.subject.keyword capital intensive
  • dc.subject.keyword production
  • dc.subject.keyword neoclassical growth model
  • dc.subject.keyword Macroeconomics and International Economics
  • dc.title Falling real wages during an industrial revolutionca
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