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The Role of Product Diversification in Skill-Biased Technological Change

Choong Hyun Nam (netch30@gmail.com)

The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) from University of Warwick, Department of Economics

Abstract: Since the 1980s, kabour demand has shifted towards more educated workers in the US. The most common explanation is that the productivity of skilled workers has risen to the unskilled, but it is not east to explain why aggregate labour productivity was stagnant during the 1980s. This paper suggests an alternative story : introducing new goods involves a fixed labour input, which is biased towards white-collar workers. Hence the transition from Ford-style mass production towards more a diversified one has shifted labour demand toward white-collar workers.

Keywords: Skill demand; product innovation; inequality; productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E32 J31 L1 O3 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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