This paper adopts a similar position to French (1987:401) who emphasises the "any differences between engeneers and scientits and the rest of workeforce are differences only in degree and only in certain dimensions". Indeed, it suggests further that the degrees of difference may becomming...

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labour within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive change in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division of...

This article analyses the role of On-the-Job Training - viewed as an investment - in human capital accumulation, its interaction with schooling decisions and its impact on innovation activities. For this purpose, we construct an endogenous innovation model which takes into account two types of...

The paper examines the implications of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work - the move from occupational specialization toward multi-tasking - for centralized wage bargaining. The analysis shows how, on account of this reorganization, centralized bargaining becomes...

How much technological change progress has there been in structures? An attempt is made to measure this using panel data on the age and rents of buildings. The data are interpreted with the help of a vintage capital model where buildings are replaced with some chosen periodicity. The key is a...

This is a specific investigation of the importance of technological change specific to new investment goods for postwar U.S. aggregate fluctuations. A growth model that incorporates this form of technological change is calibrated to U.S. data and simulated, using the relative price of new...

This paper develops model of growth in an economy where the capital stock is rationed across labour inputs, as in the dual, or segmented, labour market literature on developing economies. In this economy, the increased use of labour in the formal sectors can sustain high marginal and average...

Two basic methods for estimating total factor productivity (TFP) and technical change (TC) have been implemented : the standard econometric approach and a deterministic, non-parametric approach, which measures input and output distance functions.

Much of the dramatic change in skill and wage structure observed in recent years in the United States is believed to stem from the impact of new technology. This paper compares the changing skill strcuture of wage bills and employment in the United States with six other advanced developed...

The mechanism central to the concept of convergence is that, by the adoption of superior technological advancements of highre productivity countries, those countries with lower productivity levels can exhibit relatively highre productivity growth rates. Thus, in order to prosper in an...