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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach
Baltagi, Badi H.; Rich, Daniel P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
nonneutral technical change between production and nonproduction labor in U.S. manufacturing industries over the 1959-1996 period … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761848
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Skill-biased technological change, international trade and the wage structure
Kölling, Arnd; Schank, Thorsten - 2002
different skill types indicate that the major part of the skill structure is determined by wages, while we have found only minor … impacts of a skill-biased technological change and of international trade. … Betriebsdaten zusammengefügten Datensatzes, für West-Deutschland (1994-1997) untersucht. Schätzungen der bedingten Arbeitsnachfrage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509846
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The role of innovation in employment growth, skill demand, and wages : evidence from Ecuador
Rochina Barrachina, María E.; Rodríguez-Moreno, Jorge … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 32 (2023), pp. 1-30
This study's main objective is assessing the effects of innovation on firms' employment growth. Further, we aimed to examine the quality of jobs in terms of skills and wages. By applying a structural modeling ap- proach, four types of innovation were considered-namely, product, process,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234275
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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing : A General Index Approach
Baltagi, Badi H.; Rich, Daniel P. - 2021
This article applies recent advances in productivity and efficiency measurement to the evaluation of skill … nonneutral technical change between production and nonproduction labor in U.S. manufacturing industries over the 1959-1996 period … skill-biased technical change effects are most evident prior to 1983. This predates the diffusion of personal computer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319813
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270727
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Technological innovations and the expected demand for skilled labour at the firm level
Falk, Martin - 1999
employment for different types of labour in manufacturing. The empirical model allows for endogeneity of the firm's innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443464
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Firm-level shocks and labor adjustments
Carlsson, Mikael; Messina, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2014
curves using a unique data-set of Swedish manufacturing firms. We show that permanent shocks to firm-level demand is a main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441070
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Firm-level shocks and labor adjustments
Carlsson, Mikael; Messina, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2014
curves using a unique data-set of Swedish manufacturing firms. We show that permanent shocks to firm-level demand is a main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460179
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The evolution of wage inequality within local U.S. labor markets
Eisenbarth, Anthony; Chen, Zhuo Fu - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-25
There are few concentrated studies on wage inequality across local labor markets at the city or metropolitan level. This paper studies the changes in wage inequality among 170 metropolitan areas by using micro-level data from the U.S. Census and American Community Survey from 1980 to 2019. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169129
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Technology, outsourcing, and the demand for heterogeneous labor: Exploring the industry dimension
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - 2010
It has become common within the literature of skill-biased technological change to look at technologies, as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669976