dc.contributor.author | Lindquist, Kjersti-Gro | |
dc.contributor.author | Skjerpen, Terje | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-11-27T19:13:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-11-27T19:13:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2000 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1892-753x | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/179971 | |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract:
In most OECD-countries, labour demand has shifted from unskilled to skilled over time. Many analyses of this phenomenon focus on either the effect of technical change, capital-skill complementarity or labour-labour substitution. We present a more general analysis of labour demand in Norwegian manufacturing, and estimate a multivariate error-correction model of the cost-shares of skilled and unskilled labour, materials and energy on industry-level panel data. The results show that skilled-biased technical change, primarily due to a positive effect on skilled labour and less due to a negative effect on unskilled labour, as well as labour-labour substitution and capital stock growth are important for explaining the shift in Norwegian labour demand. Of minor importance is also non-homotheticity.
Keywords: Heterogeneous labour; Dynamic factor demand; Panel data | no_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | no_NO |
dc.publisher | Statistics Norway, Research Department | no_NO |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Discussion Papers;No. 293 | |
dc.subject | Labour demand | no_NO |
dc.subject | Norway | no_NO |
dc.subject | Skill structure | no_NO |
dc.subject | Panel data | no_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: C33 | no_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: E23 | no_NO |
dc.title | Explaining the change in skill structure of labour demand in Norwegian manufacturing | no_NO |
dc.type | Working paper | no_NO |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Economics: 212 | no_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 33 s. | no_NO |