The impact of office machinery, and computer capital on the demand for heterogeneous labour

Martin Falk and Bertrand Koebel

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Abstract: We study the impact of office and computing machinery (OCM) on the labour demand for workers with different educational levels. The empirical analysis relies on a system of demand equations that nests the translog, the generalised Leontief and the normalised quadratic specifications. Using panel data on 35 German industries, we find little evidence for a robust substitutability relationship between unskilled workers and OCM capital in manufacturing industries. In the non-manufacturing sector, however, we find some evidence for substitutability between OCM capital and unskilled workers.

Keywords: Skill-biased technological change; Capital-skill complementarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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Published in Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (1), pp.99-117. ⟨10.1016/S0927-5371(03)00056-3⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(03)00056-3

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