TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mincer,Jacob
TI  - Human Capital Responses to Technological Change in the Labor Market
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3207
PY  - 1989
Y2  - December 1989
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3207
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3207.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jacob Mincer
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AB  - In a broad sense, the relation of human capital to economic growth is reciprocal. This study focuses more narrowly on labor market consequences of human capital adjustments to the pace of technological change. Using Jorgensons multifactor productivity growth indexes for industrial sectors in the 1960's and 1970's the study explores effects of differential pace of technological changes on industry demands for educated and trained workers as reflected in PSID data covering the 1968 to 1983 period. The findings show relative increases both in quantity demanded (utilization) and in price (wages) of skilled workers in the more progressive sectors. Steeper wage profiles, lesser turnover, and lesser unemployment characterize labor in sectors whose productivity grew faster in preceding years. The growth of sectoral capital intensity produces similar effects. But, as newer vintages of capital contain new technology, the skill bias of capital intensity partly reflects the skill bias of technology.
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