The skill bias effect of technological and organisational change : evidence and policy implications

Arbeitspapier

Previous empirical literature has shown that technological change can be considered the main cause of the skill bias (increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in developed countries over the last decades. However, recent papers have also introduced the ?Skill Biased Organisational Change? hypothesis. We estimate a SUR model for a sample of 400 Italian manufacturing firms, showing that upskilling is more a function of the reorganisational strategy than a consequence of technological change alone. Moreover, some evidence of superadditive effects emerges, consistently with the theoretical hypothesis of a coevolution of technology and organisation.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 934

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: General ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Subject: skill bias ; organisational change ; manufacturing ; Qualifikation ; Arbeitsangebot ; Arbeitsnachfrage ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Reorganisation ; Organisatorischer Wandel ; Schätzung ; Italien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Piva, Mariacristina ; Santarelli, Enrico ; Vivarelli, Marco
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2003

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20171
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET