-based training, as well as its relative intensity. Relying on a job competition mechanism of skill formation, we stress the role of … affected by firm size, capital intensity, skill composition, R&D, investments in new machinery and organizational change …-organizational innovations also affect the intensity of training, both in terms of training costs and in terms of the employment share of …

Almost all studies of skilled/unskilled employment over the 1980s use data on manuals and non-manuals to measure skill …. This paper constructs data on skilled/unskilled employment using occupational data from the UK New Earnings Survey Panel …, subcontracting etc. The major findings are: (a) the ratio of skilled to unskilled employment rose by 4.4%; (b) the averaging effect …

countries. The results of multivariate analysis show that the intensive use of ICT correlates positively with the employment … with the hypothesis of "skill-biased technical change". Further, the intensive use of "employee voice …"-oriented organizational practices correlates positively with the employment shares of high-educated employees in both countries, and also …

This report examines skill trends in 24 OECD countries over the past several decades. The skill measures used include … broad occupation groups, country-specific direct measures of skill requirements from international surveys, and direct skill …

assume that whole occupations rather than single job-tasks are automated by technology. As we argue, this might lead to an …

more concentrated labor markets defined by skill clusters. Our results point to the existence of employer market power in … the economy that is driven by the concentration of skill demand across firms …

How do college students and postsecondary institutions react to changes in skill demand in the U.S. labor market? We …

We develop measures of labor-saving and labor-augmenting technology exposure using textual analysis of patents and job …-augmenting technologies on occupation-level employment and wage bills. A model featuring labor-saving and labor-augmenting technologies with …