Who benefited from industrialization? The local effects of hydropower technology adoption in Norway

This paper studies the impact of the construction of hydropower facilities on labor market outcomes in Norway at the turn of the twentieth century (1891–1920). The sudden breakthrough in hydropower technology provides a quasi-experimental setting, as not all municipalities had suitable natural endow...

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Hauptverfasser:	Leknes, Stefan, Modalsli, Jørgen
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	hydropower production industrial revolution intergenerational mobility occupational mobility structural transformation
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