Technical Change and Earnings in British Establishments

Chennells, Lucy; Reenan, John Van

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“…The Skill Biased Technological Change (SBTC) approach has pointed out the complementarity between new technologies and skills, predicting an increasing share of skilled workers [14][15][16][17][18] in both high income and middle/low income countries [19][20][21][22]. A similar effect has been related to the diffusion of new organisational practices within firms leading to an increasing demand for skilled workers [23][24][25][26].…”

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Technology and Occupations in Business Cycles

2018

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Building on studies on the impact of the Great Recession on the occupational and skill structure of employment, this article investigates developments over the last business cycle (2002-2007 and 2007-2011) in 36 manufacturing and service industries of five major European countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy and United Kingdom). We analyse how technology, education and wages have shaped the evolution of four professional groups-Managers, Clerks, Craft and Manual workers-defined on the basis of ISCO classes. During the upswing in manufacturing industries all professional groups except managers have experienced job losses, while new jobs in services have followed a pattern of growing occupational polarization. Demand growth has a general positive effect across all occupations; new products lead to job creation in the group of managers only; wage increases slow down job creation except in the lowest occupational group. During the downswing, large job losses are concentrated in the lowest occupations and most relationships-including the role of demand and wages-break down; product innovation loses its positive impact on jobs while new processes drive restructuring and job destruction across all professional groups.

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“…For the UK there are a number of studies, some as part of international comparisons. These include Chennells and Van Reenen (1997), Haskel and Heden (1999), Haskel and Slaughter (2000), Berman et al (1998) and Machin and Van Reenen (1998). Some of these studies, in particular Bresnahan (1999), have been criticised by Green et al (2000) particularly with respect to measures of skill-bias change.…”

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The Impact of Computer Use On Earnings in the UK

Arabsheibani

Emami

Marin

2004

Scottish J Political Eco

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The effect of new technology on relative demands for workers has been the subject of much research in economics. Krueger (1993) and others have studied the impact of computers on earnings in the US and elsewhere. Such studies have been criticised for ignoring the possibility of bias due to unobserved heterogeneity between computer users and non-users, resulting in computer users not being a random subsample of all workers. As well as looking at the effects of computers on earnings in the UK, this paper extends previous analyses by using a sample selection framework to deal with the bias problem. Results indicate not only that returns to computer use are positive but that it is important to correct for the sample selection bias. I IntroductionOne of the most phenomenal changes of technology in the twentieth century was in the field of computers.1 Since the early fifties, when the Univac Division of Remington Rand built the first commercial computer, both the industry and the product have undergone considerable changes. In the early periods IBM held a near monopoly in mainframe computers and a large share of the market in most other types of computers. The late 1970s and early 80s saw a revolution in this industry, with the expansion of the market in the mini and personal computer segments and the entry of hundreds of firms producing clones. The impact on the industry of such severe competition has been a reduction in the 4-firms concentration ratio to 44% of the market.2 The impact on the product has been a tremendous increase in speed, storage capacity and handling complex data, accompanied by reduction in price. A study by Berndt and Griliches (1993) estimated a reduction of 28% in the price of computers in the US between 1982 and 1988, after adjusting for quality.

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“…Gordon (1987)) and the microeconomic level (see e.g. Doms, Dunne and Troske (1997), Chennells and Van Reenen (1997), Mohnen et.al. (1986) and Van Reenen (1996)).…”

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Wages and productivity growth in a dynamic monopoly

Bester

Petrakis

2004

International Journal of Industrial Organization

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This paper studies the intertemporal problem of a monopolistic firm that engages in productivity enhancing innovations to reduce labor costs. The optimal innovation policy is not monotone and the rate of productivity growth is the highest when the firm's size is in some intermediate range. As long as its initial productivity is not too low, the firm eventually reaches a steady state where the rate of productivity growth is identical to the rate of wage growth. Productivity dependent wage differentials do not affect productivity growth in the steady state; they increase, however, the firm's long-run equilibrium cost level.

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Technical Change and Earnings in British Establishments

Cited by 55 publications

References 26 publications

Technology and Occupations in Business Cycles

Technology and Occupations in Business Cycles

The Impact of Computer Use On Earnings in the UK

Wages and productivity growth in a dynamic monopoly

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