This paper investigates the development of intermediate human capital in nineteenth-century France. We perform panel and cross-sectional regression analyses to compare the effect of technological change on basic versus intermediate human capital accumulation. Our contribution reveals that a shift in the kind of skills required occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century. We show that steam technology adoption was conducive to the accumulation of intermediate human capital in the second half of the nineteenth century.

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无论是精英，还是群众。法国工业化过程中中间人力资本的兴起

本文研究了19世纪法国中级人力资本的发展。我们进行面板和横截面回归分析，以比较技术变革对基本人力资本和中间人力资本积累的影响。我们的贡献表明，所需技能的类型在19世纪下半叶发生了变化。我们表明，采用蒸汽技术有助于在19世纪下半叶积累中级人力资本。