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Title: Computers and the Demand for Skilled Labour: Industry and Establishment-Level Panel Evidence for the United Kingdom

Author(s): Jonathan Haskel and Ylva Heden

Publication Date: June 1998

Keyword(s): Computers, Skill-Biased Technological Change and Wage Inequality

Programme Area(s): Human Resources

Abstract: We use two UK panel data sets to investigate skill-upgrading in the United Kingdom and how it has been affected by computerization. Census data reveals that most aggregate skill-upgrading is explained by within-firm rises in skill composition. Such upgrading is significantly related to computerization, a relation that is robust to different worker and computer types, endogeneity, human capital upgrading and other technology measures.

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Haskel, J and Heden, Y. 1998. 'Computers and the Demand for Skilled Labour: Industry and Establishment-Level Panel Evidence for the United Kingdom'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=1907