The Reluctant Transformation: State Industrialization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050715000030
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 65-94
• 关键词: productivity

摘要

In 1805-1882, Egypt embarked on one of the earliest state industrialization programs. Using a new data source, the Egyptian nineteenth-century population censuses, I examine the impact of the program on the long-standing inter-religious human capital differentials, which were in favor of Christians. I find that there were inter-religious differentials in reaping the benefits (or losses) of industrialization. The first state industrialization wave was de-skilling among Muslims but up-skilling among Christians, while the second wave was up-skilling for both groups. I interpret the results within Lawrence F. Katz and Robert A. Margo (2013) framework of technical change.