Demand for Skills in Canada: The Role of Foreign Outsourcing and Information-communication Technology

Beiling Yan ()

Economic Analysis (EA) Research Paper Series from Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch

Abstract: This study examines the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) and of foreign outsourcing on the demand for skilled workers. One of the defining features of the Canadian economy in the last two decades has been an increasing wage gap between more- and less-skilled workers. Over the same period, there have been dramatic increases in expenditures on information and communication technologies and in purchases of foreign intermediate inputs. Using data for 84 Canadian manufacturing industries over the 1981-1996 period, we find that both ICT and foreign outsourcing are important contributors to the demand for skills.

Keywords: Labour; Information and communications technology; Employment and unemployment; Globalization and the labour market; Labour mobility; turnover and work absences; Information and communications technology sector; Occupations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-10-28
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