The economics of skills obsolescence

Increasingly policy makers are focusing on the importance of skills and lifelong learning. The reason for this is that workers with sufficient and up-to-date skills are more productive and have more potential to remain employed. However, the processes that influence skill obsolescence, have largely...

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Other Authors: Grip, A. de., Loo, Jasper van., Mayhew, Ken.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2002.
Series: Research in labor economics ; v. 21.
Subjects:
Social Science > General.
Labour economics.
Labor economics.
Labor supply > United States.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781849501750 (electronic bk.) :
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 273 p.).

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245 0 4 |a The economics of skills obsolescence  |h [electronic resource] /  |c Andries de Grip, Jasper van Loo, Ken Mayhew. 
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300 |a 1 online resource (xvi, 273 p.). 
490 1 |a Research in labor economics,  |x 0147-9121 ;  |v v. 21 
505 0 |a Introduction / Andries De Grip, Jasper Van Loo, Ken Mayhew -- The economics of skills obsolescence : a review / Andries De Grip, Jasper Van Loo -- New technologies, skills obsolescence, and skill complementarity / Bruce A. Weinberg -- Skills obsolescence and technological progress : an empirical analysis of expected skill shortages / Piet Allaart, Marcel Kerkhofs, Jaap de Koning -- Do older workers have more trouble using a computer than younger workers? / Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel -- Non-biased technological change and growth / Rosa M. Fernández -- Employability and the costs of organizing work / Josef Falkinger -- Skill obsolescence and wage inequality within education groups / Eric D. Gould, Omer Moav, Bruce A. Weinberg -- Economic transformation and the revaluation of human capital Hungary, 1986-1999 / Gábor Kertesi, János Köllo? -- When do skills become obsolete, and when does it matter? / Jim Allen, Rolf van der Velden -- The obsolescence of skill / Finis Welch, Manuelita Ureta -- Age and schooling vintage effects on earnings profiles in Switzerland / JoséV. Ramirez. 
520 |a Increasingly policy makers are focusing on the importance of skills and lifelong learning. The reason for this is that workers with sufficient and up-to-date skills are more productive and have more potential to remain employed. However, the processes that influence skill obsolescence, have largely been neglected in labor economics. It was in the 1990s that skill issues came to the top of the agenda, because of the general awareness of the rapid technological developments that affect the demand for human capital. Although the analysis of skill-biased technological change is at the heart of this debate, in recent years, the literature has become wider than simple consideration of this aspect and has started to embrace other causes of obsolescence. The papers in this volume are selected from the papers presented at a conference on Understanding Skills Obsolescence. They advance both the theoretical and empirical understanding of the causes and the effects of skills obsolescence. 
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