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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 …
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We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five quarters drawn from Mexico?s Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two separate wage equations for the two sectors and a...
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substitutability relationship between unskilled workers and OCM capital in manufacturing industries. In the non-manufacturing sector …
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Previous empirical literature has shown that technological change can be considered the main cause of the skill bias … (increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in developed countries over the last … decades. However, recent papers have also introduced the ?Skill Biased Organisational Change? hypothesis. We estimate a SUR …
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countries, however, find evidence to the contrary. Using a panel of manufacturing firms in the 1990s we investigate whether … be indeed consistent with skill-biased technological change in Ghana. …
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female labour force participation. Factors of labour demand, like the shift from manufacturing to services, turn out to play …
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income countries. Moreover, while the presence in international markets has been skill enhancing for most middle income … countries, this has not been the case for manufacturing firms operating in China and in low-income countries. If international …
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In order to simplify the representation of a technological relationship between inputs and outputs, a production unit's technology must typically satisfy some restrictive conditions, some of them being well known in the literature. This paper presents new results for aggregating labour inputs...
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In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...
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We study the impact of local economic structure on employment dynamics. Local employment is decomposed into the product of the average plant size and the number of plants in the area and industry. We estimate the dynamics of both components simultaneously using French yearly data on 36...
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