In most OECD-countries, labour demand has shifted from unskilled to skilled over time. Many analyses of this phenomenon focus either on technical change, capital-skill complementarity or mutual labour substitution. Applying a more general approach enables us to explore the relative importance of different factors behind the shift in labour demand in Norwegian manufacturing. A multivariate error...

This paper discusses the impact of the international transfer of embodied technological change on the employment evolution of skills in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). A large body of literature has already underlined the occurrence of widening wage and employment differentials between skilled and unskilled workers in high-income countries (HICs) (Katz and Autor, 1999). Suc...

This thesis tests for a shift in the organization of production from mass to flexible production using data on the skill composition of manufacturing employment. Mass production involves high volume output of standardized goods using highly specialized, dedicated capital equipment and a division of labor that seeks efficiency by reducing to the bare minimum the number of tasks performed by each...

Abstract This article studies the implications of highly skilled labor international migration in a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. The model considers three types workers: Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) workers, non-STEM college educated and non-college workers. Aggregate productivity each economy is function innovations, which can be produced...

In this paper, the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on the employment of different specialized categories including the total labor, unskilled workers, skilled workers, technicians, and engineers has been investigated. Independent variables include information presentation index, information acquisition index, number of the internet and computers users, value added, capi...

Real wage rates in Ghana have fallen substantially over the last twenty years. In this paper survey data for the years 1991–1996 is used to assess whether this fall has continued in the 1990s. It is shown that the fall in average real wage rates has continued, the relative wage of skilled labour has risen, the share of skilled wages in total wages has remained constant and the share of wages in...

Abstract We use a unique source from the Swedish royal demesnes to examine work and relative wages of women in sixteenth‐century Sweden, an economic laggard early modern period. The pertains workers hired on yearly contracts, type more representative historical labour markets than day large construction sites, this allows us observe directly food consumed by workers. speak debate ‘little diverg...

W age inequality has increased dramatically in the United States since the late 1970s. In particular, we have witnessed growing wage differences between groups defined by observed skills such as education or experience. For example, the college premium—that is, the percentage difference between the average wages of college-educated and noncollege-educated workers—increased by a factor of four. ...

When do labor laws protect workers from workplace risks, and when do they serve to institute or insulate the privilege of particular political and economic actors? This paper argues that Latin American labor laws are highly politicized, and have been since their early origins. In the early decades of the twentieth century, the first labor codes were formulated to favor skilled, unionized labor ...