Explaining the change in skill structure of labour demand in Norwegian manufacturing
Explaining the change in skill structure of labour demand in Norwegian manufacturing
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解释挪威制造业劳动力需求技能结构的变化
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2000
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T. Skjerpen
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Kjersti;T. Skjerpen
在大多数经合组织国家，随着时间的推移，劳动力需求已从非熟练劳动力转向熟练劳动力。对这一现象的许多分析集中在技术变革的影响、资本-技能互补或劳动-劳动替代。我们提出了一个更一般的劳动力需求在挪威制造业的分析，并估计一个多变量的误差校正模型的成本份额的熟练和非熟练的劳动力，材料和能源的行业层面的面板数据。结果表明，技术偏向的技术变革，主要是由于对熟练劳动力的积极影响，而不是由于对非熟练劳动力的负面影响，以及劳动力替代和资本存量增长是重要的解释挪威劳动力需求的转变。次要的是非同位性。
In most OECD-countries, labour demand has shifted from unskilled to skilled over time. Many analyses of this phenomenon focus on either the effect of technical change, capital-skill complementarity or labour-labour substitution. We present a more general analysis of labour demand in Norwegian manufacturing, and estimate a multivariate error-correction model of the cost-shares of skilled and unskilled labour, materials and energy on industry-level panel data. The results show that skilled-biased technical change, primarily due to a positive effect on skilled labour and less due to a negative effect on unskilled labour, as well as labour-labour substitution and capital stock growth are important for explaining the shift in Norwegian labour demand. Of minor importance is also non-homotheticity.