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In this paper we report results of an exploratory empirical effort examining relationships between investments in high-tech information technology capital and the distribution of employment, both by occupation and by level of educational attainment. Our data cover the two-digit U.S....
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1986. The sign of the estimated elasticity of demand for labor with respect to changes in the stock of 0 capital is evenly … divided in the fourteen industries, but whether positive or negative, in all industries this elasticity increases in absolute … the elasticity of technical progress with respect to 0-capital are very small in magnitude implying that increases in o …
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. Adjustment costs on both labor and capital and economies of scale are incorporated. Estimation is carried out using manufacturing …
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Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S....
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An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
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Supervisory and monitoring costs are explored to understand aspects of occupational segregation by sex. Around the turn of this century 47 percent of all female manufacturing operatives were paid by the piece, but only 13 percent of the males were. There were very few males and females employed...
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