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Does Skill-Biased Technical Change Diffuse Internationally?

Schulte, Patrick - 2016

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 hardly been studied empirically. Using new sectoral data...

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Is Skill-Biased Technological Change Here Yet? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing in the 1990

Berman, Eli; Somanathan, Rohini; Tan, Hong - 2012

state from the Annual Survey of Industry. These data confirm that while the 1980s were a period of falling skills demand …, the 1990s showed generally rising demand for skills, with variation across states. They find that increased output and … occur in the same set of industries in India as it did in other countries, suggesting that increased demand for skills in …

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Age-Biased Offshoring and Automation

Blanas, Sotiris - 2022

In this paper, I provide novel evidence on the effects of offshoring and automation (e.g. industrial robots, 3-D printing machines) on the relative demand for different age groups of workers in manufacturing and service industries of eleven developed countries in 1996--2005. I find that while...

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Techies and Firm Level Productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023

We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by leveraging French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with...

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Skill-biased imports, skill acquisition, and migration

Li, Lei; Fan, Jingting - 2023

Imported capital goods, which embody skill-complementary technologies, can increase the supply of skills in developing …

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Techies and firm level productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023

We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by leveraging French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014288151

Skill-biased imports, skill acquisition, and migration

Fan, Jingting; Li, Lei - 2023

Imported capital goods, which embody skill-complementary technologies, can increase the supply of skills in developing …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290410

The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies

Caliendo, Lorenzo; Monte, Ferdinando; Rossi-Hansberg, … - 2012

We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into 'layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...

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Employment polarization in Germany : role of technology, trade and human capital

Consoli, Davide; Roy, Ipsita - 2015

Building on the canonical model of skill-biased technical change to incorporate differential effects of technology and international trade on the skill composition of occupations, the paper employs a task-based approach to analyze structural changes in regional employment within a rich...

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Trade and Tasks : An Exploration Over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O. - 2015

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

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