The Long Run Bias Against Manual Workers in British Manufacturing 1920 – 1995

Martin Hoskins ()

No 05/31, Discussion Papers in Economics from Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester

Abstract: This paper presents quantitative estimates of the effects of technological change on the composition of manual and non-manual employment in manufacturing in the United Kingdom for the period 1921 – 1995. The paper separates the effects of relative wage change, biased technological change and changes in sectoral composition and calculates the upward pressure on relative pay exerted by biased technological change.

Keywords: Skill change; United Kingdom; technological change; sectoral composition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J40 O52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-11
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