| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18901 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18901 |
| The Great Reversal in the Demand for Skill and Cognitive Tasks | |
| Paul Beaudry; David A. Green; Benjamin M. Sand | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-03-21 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | What explains the current low rate of employment in the US? While there has been substantial debate over this question in recent years, we believe that considerable added insight can be derived by focusing on changes in the labor market at the turn of the century. In particular, we argue that in about the year 2000, the demand for skill (or, more specifically, for cognitive tasks often associated with high educational skill) underwent a reversal. Many researchers have documented a strong, ongoing increase in the demand for skills in the decades leading up to 2000. In this paper, we document a decline in that demand in the years since 2000, even as the supply of high education workers continues to grow. We go on to show that, in response to this demand reversal, high-skilled workers have moved down the occupational ladder and have begun to perform jobs traditionally performed by lower-skilled workers. This de-skilling process, in turn, results in high-skilled workers pushing low-skilled workers even further down the occupational ladder and, to some degree, out of the labor force all together. In order to understand these patterns, we offer a simple extension to the standard skill biased technical change model that views cognitive tasks as a stock rather than a flow. We show how such a model can explain the trends in the data that we present, and offers a novel interpretation of the current employment situation in the US. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18901 |
| 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/576576 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Paul Beaudry,David A. Green,Benjamin M. Sand. The Great Reversal in the Demand for Skill and Cognitive Tasks. 2013. |
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| w18901.pdf（771KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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