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Technology and the demand for skills in Canada: an industry-level analysis

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Surendra Gera
Wulong Gu
Zhengxi Lin

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In this paper we examine the effect of technological change on the relative demand for skilled workers across Canadian industries. We find that skill upgrading at the aggregate level is less evident in Canada than in the United States and other industrialized economies over the 1981-94 period. Behind this overall trend on skill upgrading, there is substantial variation across industrial sectors. Consistent with the skill-biased technological change hypothesis, the technology indicators - the stock of patents used by the industry and the age of capital stock - are found to be significantly correlated with skill intensity.

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Volume (Year): 34 (2001)
Issue (Month): 1 (February)
Pages: 132-148
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E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution
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J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
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  2. Surendra Gera & Wulong Gu, 2004. "The Effect of Organizational Innovation and Information and Communications Technology on Firm Performance," International Productivity Monitor, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, vol. 9, pages 37-51, Fall. [Downloadable!]
  3. Yan, Beiling, 2005. "Demande de compétences au Canada : le rôle de l'impartition à l'étranger et de la technologie de l'information et des communications," Série de documents de recherche sur l'analyse économique (AE) 2005035f, Statistics Canada, Direction des études analytiques. [Downloadable!]
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  7. Frank Cörvers & Jaanika Meriküll, 2007. "Occupational structures across 25 EU countries: the importance of industry structure and technology in old and new EU countries," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 40(4), pages 327-359, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  8. Afonso, Oscar, 2008. "The impact of government intervention on wage inequality without scale effects," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 25(2), pages 351-362, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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