Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Hollanders Hugo
Author-Name: Weel Bas ter
Author-workplace-name: MERIT 
Title: Technology, Knowledge Spillovers and Changes in Skill Structure
Abstract: This paper investigates and compares the changes in skill structure in six OECD countries (Finland, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) in the period 1975-1995 using new OECD data on employment by skill level and type. For all countries evidence is found that technical change is skill-biased in the sense that it favors high-skilled labor. In particular white-collar high-skilled workers have profited from recent technical change. However, rather than employees literally working on R&D it are workers who supervise and use the implemented parts of the advancements of R&D that profit from increased R&D efforts. In addition, the results are extended by stressing the importance of knowledge spillovers on changes in employment shares between high-skilled and low-skilled workers.
Keywords: labour economics ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2000
Number: 001
File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:f9cef8e1-b8a3-405a-b6ee-dbec413bf825/datastreams/ASSET1/content
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File-Size: 119554
Handle: RePEc:unm:umamer:2000001