Technology, firm performance, jobs, and wages -- how these are changing and how they interact are prime concerns today.Technology, Workers, and Wages presents up-to-date research findings on technological innovation, job turnover, changes in skill requirements, and wages in manufacturing. It explores the web of factors that shape the impact of technology on worker populations.Leading investigators report the results of research using plant-level data on manufacturing firms in 12 industrial countries. Topics include:
-- The impact of R&D on job creation.
-- Relationships between firm profitability and wage levels.
-- Technology and wage differentials between industries.
-- The impact on employment when firms acquire foreign technologies.
-- Technology's impact on skilled versus unskilled workers.The authors explore the validity of common assumptions about technology and economic development.
- ISBN10 0309055288
- ISBN13 9780309055284
- Publish Date December 1996
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 18 August 1997
- Publish Country US
- Imprint National Academies Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 275
- Language English