Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Bruinshoofd Allard Author-Name: Weel Bas ter Author-workplace-name: MERIT Title: Skill-biased technical change: On technology and wages in the Netherlands Abstract: This paper investigates the shift in demand away from low-skilled and towards high-skilled labour in the Netherlands over the 1990s. Making the distinction between the effects of technical change on job type and job level, the conclusion is that skill-biased technical change based on job level is the chief cause for this shift. Keywords: labour economics ; Series: Research Memoranda Creation-Date: 1998 Number: 021 File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:41b57633-0798-49b1-b91f-8d6dcf6d9ad6/datastreams/ASSET1/content File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 70333 Handle: RePEc:unm:umamer:1998021