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New technologies and the demand for heterogeneous labor: Firm-level evidence for the German business-related services sector

This paper investigates the impact of modern information and communication technologies on the demand for heterogeneous labor. It starts with an interrelated factor demand system. The "desired" level of employment, which is needed in such models, is derived from a generalized Leontief cost function with quasi-fixed factors. Cross-sectional data taken from an innovation survey in the service sector are used in the empirical analysis. The model is estimated by a trivariate ordered probit model. Evidence in favor of skill-biased technological change in the fast growing German business-related services sector is found. The paper suggests a new method of calculating skill- and firm-specific labor cost from information on total labor cost and the share of each skill group in total employment only. It also proposes an approach to calculate long-run elasticities in an ordered probit context.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 99-07

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Personal, Professional, and Business Services
Thema
interrelated factor demands
Generalized Leontief cost function
heterogeneous labor demand
business-related services
labor cost decomposition
trivariate ordered probit model

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kaiser, Ulrich
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
1999

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kaiser, Ulrich
  • Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)

Entstanden

  • 1999

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