Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171929 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 153
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht
Abstract: 
Occupations and sectors are the two fundamental dimensions of structural change. From the evolution of the high/low-skill employment levels and wage ratio, we can understand which sectors have been undertaking a process of technical change. By using Eu-Silc database we investigate four “Southern Europe” countries (Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal), three “Eastern Europe” countries (Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria), UK and Austria. Our analysis shows that the crisis seems to have radically changed the behavior of economies and sectors. It emerges that Poland behaves in a similar way to Austria (with a growing role of technology and Skill Biased Technical Change), while in Hungary the economic system seems to be restructuring as Iberian countries.
Subjects: 
Technical change
Labour
Skill premium
Country studies
JEL: 
O33
O47
P51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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