Citation
J. Haskel et Y. Heden, Computers and the demand for skilled labour: Industry- and establishment-level panel evidence for the UK, ECON J, 109(454), 1999, pp. C68-C79
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Economics
Journal title
ECONOMIC JOURNAL
ISSN journal
00130133
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Volume
109
Issue
454
Year of publication
1999
Pages
C68 - C79
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-0133(199903)109:454<C68:CATDFS>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
We use two United Kingdom panel data sets to investigate skill-upgrading in
the United Kingdom and how it has been affected by computerisation. Census
data reveals that most aggregate skill-upgrading is explained by within-es
tablishment rises in skill composition. Such upgrading is significantly rel
ated to computerisation, a relation that is robust to different worker and
computer types, endogeneity, human capital upgrading and other technology m
easures.