We develop a new model to explain the occupational structure of Dutchsectors of industry. The non-homothetic production function we use takesaccount of capital-skill complementarities, skill-biased technological changeand the interaction between labour demand and supply.We estimate the...

In dit werkdocument wordt verslag gedaan van een onderzoek naar het beroepenmodel van de uitbreidingsvraag van het ROA. Het onderzoek vindt plaats in het kader van het Project Onderwijs-Arbeidsmarkt (POA). In Cörvers en Dupuy (2006) is het beroepenmodel beschreven dat is gebruikt voor het...

1 Introduction1.1 BackgroundThe Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market generates everytwo years medium-term forecast of the labour market prospects of typesof education and occupations. The first forecast were generated in 1989,after a pilot in 1987, under a contract from the...

An important factor of shifts in the skills composition of the workforceis the upgrading of the qualifications demanded in the variousjobs in the economy, the so-called skill-upgrading. This skill-upgradingis principally caused by the development of new technologies that demandmore or different...