The Role of Technology in Determining Skilled Employment: An Economywide Approach
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The Role of Technology in Determining Skilled Employment: An Economywide Approach by Patrick Laplagne, Peter Marshall and Susan Stone was released on 28 August 2001. The paper investigates the shift in demand toward skilled workers in an economywide framework, and compares the role of skill biased technological change with that of trade in explaining the increased demand for skilled workers. Also see:
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CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Acknowledgements, Key Messages, Overview
1 Introduction
1.1 Gaps in existing evidence
1.2 Benefits of general equilibrium analysis
2 Background and method
2.1 Model
2.2 Method
3 Decomposing the effects of technology
3.1 Outcomes of the historical simulation
3.2 Change in the relative employment of skilled labour; outcomes of the decomposition simulation
4 Industry outcomes
4.1 Industry outcomes
4.2 Summary
5 Summary of findings
5.1 Summary
5.2 Future research
A Historical and decomposition simulations with MONASH
A.1 Historical and decomposition modes of MONASH
B Sector wage and employment data
B.1 Data sources
B.2 Industry concordance
B.3 Relative employment and relative wage calculations
B.4 MONASH industry and sector classification
C Functional form
C.1 Introduction
C.2 Translog
C.3 Constant elasticity of substitution
C.4 Implementation in MONASH
D Detailed results
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