-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 …

skill-biased technical change effects are most evident prior to 1983. This predates the diffusion of personal computer … price-induced substitution, nonhomothetic output effects and skill-biased technical change responses to a range of proposed …

the twin suppositions that employers of apprentices are uniformly high contributors to skill formation, and that high … training-related costs risks generally deter their participation. Differences in training behaviour are attributed to high-skill … versus low-skill business strategies that in turn reflect differing product markets and regulatory constraints. Whatever the …

that the skill-biased technological change hypothesis is rejected if single countries are analyzed with an industry panel …

increase the demand for skill. …

Commentators claim that a shortage of skills in South Africa is constraining output and that a rise in skill supply …

skill bias, the new technology is bearing a strong polarization between educated worker, not always employed in high skilled …

performances of firms in terms of marginal cost, aggregate labor demand and employment by skill. Unlike most studies dealing with … efficient computers. This paper is an attempt to assess the impact of the fall of the cost of this particular input, on the … complementarities between computers, skilled and unskilled labor rests on the sole estimation of a production function. We define a set …

involvement explain some of the new skill requirements. Using either industry or occupation panel analyses, I find that employee … communication skills and self-planning skills. These effects are found to be independent of the effect of computers on generic …

This paper analyzes the net effects of technology and import competition on employment, wages and wage inequality in … the Canadian manufacturing sector over the 1970-1990 period by estimating reduced form employment and wage equations. The …-hours worked, the level of employment and the hourly labor compensation by industry are examined. The major findings for the study …