 The labor market effects of skill-biased technological change in MalaysiaMohamed Marouani and Björn Nilsson Economic Modelling, 2016, vol. 57, issue C, 55-75 Abstract: During the last half-century, the evolution of educational attainment in Malaysia has been spectacular, and the current enrollment rates suggest that this progression will continue. Such a transformation of the labor skill composition should bring about macroeconomic effects such as wage compression, sectoral shifts and high skill unemployment, unless compensatory mechanisms exist. Relying on decomposition techniques, we argue that skill biased technological change (SBTC) occurred in Malaysia in recent years, and permitted unemployment figures to remain low and skill premia not to sink. We also develop a dynamic general equilibrium model, simulating the absence of SBTC and limit the number of admissions to higher education. The results are fed to a microsimulation module. They show that the reduction in wage inequalities could have been substantially more important had SBTC not been present. Furthermore, they suggest that the open-door higher education policy has contributed heavily to a reduction in wage inequalities. Keywords: Skill acquisition; CGE; Education and the labor market; Input–output; Technological change (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecmode:v:57:y:2016:i:c:p:55-75 DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2016.04.009 Access Statistics for this article Economic Modelling is currently edited by S. Hall and P. Pauly More articles in Economic Modelling from Elsevier |
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