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The Impact of ICT Investments on the Relative Demand for High-, Medium-, and Low-Skilled Workers : Industry Versus Country Analysis
Schneider, Dorothee - 2011
explore this impact for 23 industries. I find that the skill-biased technological change hypothesis is rejected if single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133911
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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers : industry versus country analysis
Schneider, Dorothee - 2010
that the skill-biased technological change hypothesis is rejected if single countries are analyzed with an industry panel … since 1995. -- ICT ; Skill ; Income Inequality ; Labor Demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953009
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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … labour-augmenting effect, increasing total manufacturing employment. The two-equation dynamic framework implemented to … analyse enterprise-level employment trends by skill level provides some evidence of skill-bias specific to enterprises with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226717
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Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality : An International Comparison
Dupuy, Arnaud; Borghans, Lex - 2021
In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether international differences in the wage structure can be explained by differences in labor demand and supply in each country. The model explicitly takes into account the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319671
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Does Skill-Biased Technical Change Diffuse Internationally?
Schulte, Patrick - 2016
(covering manufacturing and service industries) and 13 years (1995-2007), the analysis shows that skill-biased technology …This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes … to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994538
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Does Skill-Biased Technical Change Diffuse Internationally?
Schulte, Patrick - 2016
(covering manufacturing and service industries) and 13 years (1995-2007), the analysis shows that skill-biased technology …This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes … to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127893
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Workers' skill level and information technology : evidence from German service firms
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are used to analyse the determinants of the Firm-specific skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442453
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Data, measurement and initiatives for inclusive digitalization and future of work
Nofal, María B.; Coremberg, Ariel; Sartorio, Luca - 2018
As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected, new data sources and measurement tools are needed to complement existing valuable statistics and administrative data. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011908122
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Distorted Innovation : Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In the presence of markup differences, externalities and other social considerations, the equilibrium direction of innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing comparative static results and characterizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226119
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Does Economic Globalization Affect the Level and Volatility of Labor Demand by Skill? New Insights from the Tunisian Manufacturing Industries
Ben Salha, Ousama - 2015
demand for different skill groups in Tunisia. Using a panel dataset covering six manufacturing industries between 1983 and … skill-enhancing trade hypothesis in Tunisian industries. Finally, our findings suggest that both exports and imports rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013774