The Labor Market Consequences of Electricity Adoption: Concrete Evidence from the Great Depression
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Keywords
electricity; technical change; Great Depression; labor market; employment; labor productivity; labor share of income.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- N12 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
- N62 - Economic History - - Manufacturing and Construction - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2016-04-04 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2016-04-04 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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