| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18752 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18752 |
| Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective | |
| Lawrence F. Katz; Robert A. Margo | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-02-01 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper examines shifts over time in the relative demand for skilled labor in the United States. Although de-skilling in the conventional sense did occur overall in nineteenth century manufacturing, a more nuanced picture is that occupations "hollowed out": the share of "middle-skill" jobs - artisans - declined while those of "high-skill" - white collar, non-production workers - and "low-skill" - operatives and laborers increased. De-skilling did not occur in the aggregate economy; rather, the aggregate shares of low skill jobs decreased, middle skill jobs remained steady, and high skill jobs expanded from 1850 to the early twentieth century. The pattern of monotonic skill upgrading continued through much of the twentieth century until the recent "polarization" of labor demand since the late 1980s. New archival evidence on wages suggests that the demand for high skill (white collar) workers grew more rapidly than the supply starting well before the Civil War. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; History ; Macroeconomic History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18752 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576426 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lawrence F. Katz,Robert A. Margo. Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective. 2013. |
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