Skill-Based Technical Change

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dc.contributor.author	Sanders, Mark, Bas ter Weel
dc.date.accessioned	2010-06-30
dc.date.accessioned	2010-06-30T09:46:05Z
dc.date.available	2010-06-30T09:46:05Z
dc.date.issued	2010-06-30
dc.identifier.isbn	8778730929
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8079
dc.description.abstract	The structure of wages and employment has shifted against the low-skilled in many OECD countries over the last decade. Many authors have attributed this shift to the impact of new technologies, and or technical change in general. This paper investigates and structures the growing body of literature on skill-biased technical change (SBTC) by first presenting a model in which SBTC is formalised and decomposed into factor and sector biases of technical change. We show that as we go down to the job level the scope for pure within unit-skill bias decreases and between-unit effects explain the within-unit effects detected at higher aggregation levels. Second, we address some potential sources of skill bias, which are learning, R&D, human capital formation, organisational change and the introduction of new general purpose technologies. Finally we present some conceptual and practical problems we encounter when studying SBTC empirically. We conclude with a survey of selected empirical literature on the subject and discuss the results in light of the empirical and theoretical problems pointed out above.	en_US
dc.format.extent	84 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	DRUID;00-8
dc.subject.other	Technical change, skill, learning	en_US
dc.title	Skill-Based Technical Change	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt10jun30 siso	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Innovation og Organisationsøkonomi	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	INO	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	INO	en_US
dc.idnumber	8778730929	en_US
dc.publisher.city	Frederiksberg	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2000	en_US
dc.title.subtitle	Theoretical Concepts, Empirical Problems and a Survey of the Evidence	en_US