IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-52381-4_4.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Technology Shifts, Industrial Dynamics and Labour Market Institutions in Sweden, 1920–95

In: Technology and Human Capital in Historical Perspective

Author

Listed:
  • Lars Svensson

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to explore the role of labour market institutions in promoting economic growth, notably by improving the compatibility between technology and human capital. The study draws upon elements from three traditions in social science: a cyclical model of economic growth developed within a Schumpeterian structural-economic framework is combined with a theory of skill-biased technological change from mainstream labour economics and a Northian approach to institutional change. The basic idea is that technological change generates divergent biases in demand for skills in different phases of a structural cycle. These divergent tendencies are the result of investments in some periods being directed mainly towards the renewal of products and processes, and in others towards increasing the efficiency of the established structure. Shifts in skill bias in turn create a pressure to transform labour market institutions.

Suggested Citation

  • Lars Svensson, 2005. "Technology Shifts, Industrial Dynamics and Labour Market Institutions in Sweden, 1920–95," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Jonas Ljungberg & Jan-Pieter Smits (ed.), Technology and Human Capital in Historical Perspective, chapter 4, pages 79-101, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52381-4_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523814_4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52381-4_4. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.