Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19948
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy No. 0304
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena
Abstract: 
Recent empirical literature has introduced the "kill Biased Organizational Change" hypothesis, according to which organizational change can be considered as one of the main causes of the skill bias (increase in the number of highly skiled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in developed countries. In this paper, a specific branch of the Italian capital goods industry is analyzed, that producing specialized industrial machinery; from the estimation of a transcendental logarithmic firm cost function it turns out that skill upgrading is not a consequence of technological change alone, but is also an effect of the overall reorganization of the firm, which in turn may be linked to technological change.
Subjects: 
Skill Bias
Organizational Change
Capital goods industry
JEL: 
M54
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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