dc.contributor.author | Bjørnstad, Roger | |
dc.contributor.author | Skjerpen, Terje | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-11-24T13:25:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-11-24T13:25:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1892-753x | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/180531 | |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract:
In recent decades new technology has led to increasing demand for well-educated labour at the
expense of labour with lower education levels. Moreover, increased imports from low-cost countries
have squeezed out many Norwegian manufacturing firms employing a sizeable share of workers with
low education. In this article a large macroeconomic model for Norway (MODAG) is used to quantify
the importance that technological developments and competition from low-cost countries have had
for the economy and for low- and high-educated labour. The results show that above all
technological developments, but also increased trade with low-cost countries, have reduced demand
for low-educated labour relative to well-educated labour. Wage formation factors have however
meant a) that technological developments have also benefited those with low education who still hold
a job, and b) that a relative fall in prices on goods from poor parts of the world has kept down wage
differentials.
Keywords: Skill-bias technological change, international trade, centralized wage setting, inequality,
labour demand, macroeconometric model. | no_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | no_NO |
dc.publisher | Statistics Norway, Research Department | no_NO |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Discussion Papers;No. 364 | |
dc.subject | Technological changes | no_NO |
dc.subject | Labour demand | no_NO |
dc.subject | International trade | no_NO |
dc.subject | Wages | no_NO |
dc.subject | Inequality | no_NO |
dc.subject | Macroeconometric models | no_NO |
dc.subject | Education levels | no_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: E24 | no_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: E27 | no_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: F16 | no_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: O33 | no_NO |
dc.title | Technology, trade and inequality | no_NO |
dc.type | Working paper | no_NO |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Econometrics: 214 | no_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 49 s. | no_NO |