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The Decline in Unskilled Employment in UK Manufacturing

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  • Haskel, Jonathan

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Almost all studies of skilled/unskilled employment over the 1980s use data on manuals and non-manuals to measure skill. This paper constructs data on skilled/unskilled employment using occupational data from the UK New Earnings Survey Panel Data set. It merges these data with other product and labour market information on trade, computers, unionization, subcontracting etc. The major findings are: (a) the ratio of skilled to unskilled employment rose by 4.4%; (b) the averaging effect of the shift of employment between industries is negligible in explaining this rise; (c) the introduction of microprocessors/computers increased the employment ratio by 1.5%; and (d) there is no significant effect from trade, unionization, subcontracting, small firms or entry.

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  • Haskel, Jonathan, 1996. "The Decline in Unskilled Employment in UK Manufacturing," CEPR Discussion Papers 1356, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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    1. Jari Vainiomaki, 1999. "Technology and Skill Upgrading: Results from Linked Worker-Plant Data for Finnish Manufacturing," Contributions to Economic Analysis, in: The Creation and Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data, pages 115-145, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    2. Ruud Mooij & Michael Devereux, 2011. "An applied analysis of ACE and CBIT reforms in the EU," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 18(1), pages 93-120, February.
    3. Paul Veenendaal, 2005. "Import duty incidence," CPB Memorandum 128.rdf, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
    4. Arestis, Philip & Mariscal, Iris Biefang-Frisancho, 1998. "Capital shortages and asymmetries in UK unemployment," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 9(2), pages 189-204, June.
    5. Phil Evans, 1998. "Why has the female unemployment rate fallen so much in Britain?," Bank of England working papers 87, Bank of England.
    6. Ide Kearney, 1997. "Shifts in the Demand for Skilled Labour in the Irish Manufacturing Sector: 1979-1990," Papers WP083, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
    7. Craig de Laine & Patrick Laplagne & Susan Stone, 2001. "The increasing demand for skilled workers in Australia: the role of technical change," Labor and Demography 0105005, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    8. Schimmelpfennig, Axel, 1998. "Skill-biased technical change vs. structural change: Insights from a new view of the structure of an economy," Kiel Working Papers 868, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).

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    Keywords

    Computers; Employment; Skill;
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    JEL classification:

    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand

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