Technology and Human Capital in Historical Perspective

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Technology and Human Capital in Historical Perspective: An Introduction

   • Jonas Ljungberg

   Pages 1-21

3. Human Capital and Industrialization: The Case of a Latecomer — Portugal, 1890

   • Jaime Reis

   Pages 22-48

4. Engineering Expertise and the Canadian Exploitation of the Technology of the Second Industrial Revolution

   • Marvin McInnis

   Pages 49-78

5. Technology Shifts, Industrial Dynamics and Labour Market Institutions in Sweden, 1920–95

   • Lars Svensson

   Pages 79-101

6. Did Higher Technical Education Pay?

   • Jonas Ljungberg

   Pages 102-119

7. Economic Growth, Technology Transfer and Convergence in Spain, 1960–73

   • Mar Cebrián, Santiago López

   Pages 120-144

8. Variations in Total Factor Productivity Analysed with Cointegration: Swedish Manufacturing Industry, 1950–94

   • Camilla Josephson

   Pages 145-181

9. Spain’s Low Technological Level: An Explanation

   • José M. Ortiz-Villajos

   Pages 182-204

10. Technological Specialization in Sweden and Finland 1963–97: Contrasting Developments

    • Svante Lingärde, Jani Saarinen

    Pages 205-225

11. Back Matter

    Pages 226-239

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One theme of this volume is whether the complementarity between technology and human capital is a recent phenomenon, or whether it can be traced through history. Different approaches to human capital as well as technology are applied, and besides historical surveys are total factor productivity and patent data employed. The studies deal with the Iberian peninsula, Scandinavia, and Canada, countries displaying different patterns in the international development.

• development
• industrial revolution
• Industrialisierung
• technology transfer

• Lund University, Sweden

  Jonas Ljungberg

• University of Groningen, The Netherlands

  Jan-Pieter Smits

JONAS LJUNGBERG is Associate Professor in Economic History at Lund University, Sweden.

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