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Headquarters and Skill Biased Technical Change (Japanese)

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  • KAWAKAMI Atsushi

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This paper investigates the relationship between headquarter work and full-time or part-time onsite workers by using the "skill biased technical change" methodology. From the middle of the 1990s in Japan, the number of full-time onsite workers and workers engaged in tasks at headquarters have been decreasing while the number of part-time onsite workers have been increasing. It was also confirmed that the role of headquarters changed from administrative tasks to entrepreneurial tasks over time. From the estimation of a limited sample which covers only single-establishment firms, we disclose that the scale of headquarters decreases the demand of full-time onsite workers. Particularly, administrative headquarters have more influence on substitution with full-time onsite workers than entrepreneurial headquarters. On the other hand, the role composition of headquarters have various effects on skill biased technical change in each industry.

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  • KAWAKAMI Atsushi, 2017. "Headquarters and Skill Biased Technical Change (Japanese)," Discussion Papers (Japanese) 17043, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
    • Handle: RePEc:eti:rdpsjp:17043
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