Off the waterfront: the long-run impact of technological change on dock workers

We investigate how individual workers and local labour markets adjust over a long time period to a discrete and plausibly exogenous technological shock, namely the introduction of containerisation in the UK port industry. This technology, which was introduced rapidly between the mid-1960s and the l...

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Main Authors: El-Sahli, Zouheir, Upward, Richard
Format: Article
Published: Wiley 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40156/