Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … size-weighted average management score. We present a formal model of "Management as a Technology", and structurally …

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …

call technology shifters (economic factors). We use several composite technology indices based on appropriate combinations … of the external economic factors which are indicators of different aspects of technology. These technology indices are … specific external economic factors. Furthermore, the technology shifters allow for non-neutral and biased shifts in TC. We also …

-biased technological change and skill-enhancing technology import, both leading to increasing the employment gap between skilled and …

suppliers, who can afford to use the latest technology, becomes relatively cheaper. The predictions of the model are tested …

support the idea that greater openness and technology adoption have increased the demand for skills, especially in middle … integration in the region intensifies further and technology continues to be skilled biased, policies aimed at mitigating skills …