Who benefited from industrialization? The local effects of hydropower technology adoption
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Keywords
industrial revolution; hydropower production; structural transformation; occupational mobility; intergenerational mobility;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- N7 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services
- N9 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History
- R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2018-05-14 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LAB-2018-05-14 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-TID-2018-05-14 (Technology and Industrial Dynamics)
- NEP-URE-2018-05-14 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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