The Impact Of Technological Change On Employment: Evidence From A Firm-Level Survey Of Long Island Manufacturers

Donald Siegel

Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1998, vol. 5, issue 2-4, 227-246

Abstract: Recent studies of capital-skill complementarity suffer from several important empirical limitations and a theoretical framework that treats technological change as exogenous. This paper addresses some of these limitations using a new, detailed firm-level dataset on technology usage and labor composition. Based on two-stage estimation procedures, our results imply that technological change leads to a shift in labor composition and compensation in favor of white-collar workers.

Keywords: advanced manufacturing technologies; skill-biased technological change JEL Classification: J23; O32; O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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