The Sector Bias of Skill-biased Technical Change and the Rising Skill Premium in Transition Economies

Piero Esposito and Robert Stehrer

No 43, wiiw Working Papers from The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw

Abstract: In this paper we test the hypothesis that the sector bias of skill-biased technical change is important in explaining the rising relative wage of skilled workers in the manufacturing sector in three Central and Eastern European transition countries. The evidence for Hungary and Poland is consistent with the sector bias being important in explaining the rising wage premium; the hypotheses is however not confirmed for the Czech Republic.

Keywords: skill premium; factor prices; biased technical change; transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C62 C68 F16 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-05
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