{"title":"Structural Changes in the Demand for Labour","authors":"D. Draper","doi":"10.1108/S0573-8555(1998)0000250009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/S0573-8555(1998)0000250009","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates why labor demand has shifted away from low-skilled toward high-skilled labor in The Netherlands. We focus on the role of changes in relative wages and technological progress. A flexible functional form, proposed by Diewert and Wales, the Symmetric Generalized McFadden cost function, is estimated for the exposed and sheltered sectors. The estimates are based on time-series data for the period 1972–1993, which recently became available. Labor-saving technological change explains most of the displacement of low-skilled workers. The computed elasticities suggest that substitution between labor as a whole and capital is small. However, substitution plays a modest role in the shift from low-skilled toward high-skilled labor, especially in the sheltered sector. Skill-capital complementarity seems relevant in both sectors.","PeriodicalId":46156,"journal":{"name":"Economist-Netherlands","volume":"90 1","pages":"521-546"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"1998-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74671097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opmerkingen en aantekeningen: De inconsistentie in professor heertjes aanbodvariant van het model van harrod en domar","authors":"S. Kuipers","doi":"10.1007/BF02367516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02367516","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46156,"journal":{"name":"Economist-Netherlands","volume":"37 1","pages":"695-698"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"1969-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74039706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De zevende zitting van het Institut International de Statistique","authors":"C. Stuart","doi":"10.1007/BF02228415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02228415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46156,"journal":{"name":"Economist-Netherlands","volume":"24 1","pages":"712-729"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"1899-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72710843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}