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Título: | Is technology factor-neutral? Evidence from the US manufacturing sector |
Autor(es): | Mallick, Sushanta K. Sousa, Ricardo M. |
Palavras-chave: | Technological progress Skill premium Industry-level data |
Data: | 2012 |
Resumo(s): | This paper analyses the neutrality of technology using data from the NBER-CES Manufacturing industry database. We show that technology has a positive effect on the skilled-to-unskilled labour and wage ratios, offering a skill-premium for these skilled workers. We also find that technology has become more favourable towards skilled labour since the eighties, thereby, explaining the rise in the relative abundance of skilled workers. Finally, differences in productivity among the two labour inputs are important when they are relatively poor substitutes, despite the increase in the elasticity of substitution between unskilled and skilled labour that occurred over the past decades. |
Tipo: | Documento de trabalho |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/22487 |
Versão da editora: | http://www.eeg.uminho.pt/economia/nipe |
Arbitragem científica: | no |
Acesso: | Acesso aberto |
Aparece nas coleções: | NIPE - Documentos de Trabalho |
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NIPE_WP_26_2012.pdf | Documento principal | 429,37 kB | Adobe PDF | Ver/Abrir |