The Changing Demand for Skills : Evidence from the Transition

Arbeitspapier

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job creation in new firms tends to be biased against workers with low educational attainments and skills. The skill content of blue collar work has also shifted upwards. Although there is variation across the sampled countries, these appear to be common features. They will have major longer run implications for the level and structure of employment and for inequality through the distribution of earnings.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1073

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs ; Labor Demand
• Subject: job reallocation ; human capital ; transition ; Hungary ; Romania ; Russia ; Übergangswirtschaft ; Arbeitsnachfrage ; Qualifikation ; Schätzung ; Ungarn ; Rumänien ; Russland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Commander, Simon ; Kollo, Janos
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20308
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET