TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bartel,Ann P.
AU  - Sicherman,Nachum
TI  - Technological Change and the Skill Acquisition of Young Workers
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5107
PY  - 1999
Y2  - August 1999
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5107
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5107.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ann P. Bartel
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University
3022 Broadway, 623 Uris Hall
New York, NY  10027
Tel: 212/854-4419
Fax: (212) 316-9219
E-Mail: apb2@columbia.edu

Nachum Sicherman
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University
3022 Broadway, 819 Uris
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212/854-4464
Fax: 212/854-9895
E-Mail: nachum.sicherman@columbia.edu
AB  - Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and six proxies for industry rates of technological change, we study the impact of technological change on skill accumulation among young male workers in the manufacturing sector during the time period 1987 through 1992.  Production workers in manufacturing industries with higher rates of technological change are more likely to receive formal company training, but not other types of training.  An important finding is that, while more educated workers are more likely to receive formal company training, the training gap between the highly educated and the less educated narrows, on average, as the rate of technological change increases.  The positive effect of technological change on hours of training is due largely to an increase in the incidence of training, not in the number of hours per training spell.
ER  -