Technological Change and the Skill Acquisition of Young Workers

Bartel, Ann P.; Sicherman, Nachum

doi:10.1086/209904

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“…Some authors such as Bartel and Sicherman (1998) or Autor et al (1998) distinguish two types of technological changes, depending on the extent to which the new technology complements or substitutes skills acquired through schooling. They find that a positive relationship between human capital and workers' productivity appears when the introduction of a technology complements skills already acquired by workers during their schooling.…”

Section: Technology/knowledge Intensitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity: Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?

2015

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The authors provide first evidence on whether the direct relationship between educational mismatch and firm productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over-(under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of high-skilled jobs, (ii) belonging to high-tech/knowledge-intensive industries, and (iii) evolving in a more uncertain economic environment. Interaction effects between under-education and working environments are less clear-cut. However, economic uncertainty is systematically found to accentuate the detrimental effect of under-education on productivity.Keywords: Educational mismatch, productivity, linked employer-employee panel data, working environments. AbstractThe authors provide first evidence on whether the direct relationship between educational mismatch and firm productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over-(under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of high-skilled jobs, (ii) belonging to high-tech/knowledge-intensive industries, and (iii) evolving in a more uncertain economic environment. Interaction effects between under-education and working environments are less clear-cut. However, economic uncertainty is systematically found to accentuate the detrimental effect of under-education on productivity.

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Section: Technology/knowledge Intensitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity: Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?

2015

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“…This assumption also relies on findings in previous research. Bartel and Sicherman (1998) use the NLSY79 data from 1987 through 1992 and find that production workers in manufacturing industries with higher rates of technological change are more likely to receive formal company training. Gashi, Pugh and Adnett (2008) reach a similar conclusion using an administrative German dataset.…”

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The Changing Roles of Education and Ability in Wage Determination

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Dechter

2014

Journal of Labor Economics

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This study examines changes in returns to formal education and cognitive ability over the last 20 years using the 1979 and 1997 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We show that cognitive skills had a substantially larger impact on wages in the 1980s than in the 2000s. Returns to education were higher in the 2000s.These developments are not explained by changing distributions of workers' observable characteristics or by changing labor market structure. We show that the decline in returns to ability can be attributed to differences in the growth rate of technology between the 1980s and 2000s.

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“…Many studies have shown that more educated workers have greater potential for learning during employment (e.g. Bartel & Sicherman, 1998). Case studies of US electronics ® rms in Malaysia document their long-term investment in building up the skills of the local workforce (Hobday, 1995).…”

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