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Demand for Skills in Canada
Beiling Yan
其他書名
The Role of Foreign Outsourcing and Information-communication Technology
出版Statistics Canada, 2005
ISBN06624197239780662419723
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WbA9PQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The level of uncertainty will depend on several factors: the nature of the functional form used in the multivariate analysis; the type of econometric technique employed; the appropriateness of the statistical assumptions embedded in the model or technique; the comprehensiveness of the variables included in the analysis; and the accuracy of the data that are utilized. [...] Foreign outsourcing, defined here as the purchase of imported foreign intermediate inputs, may therefore lead to a fall in the demand for unskilled labour at home and increase the relative demand for skilled labour.2 Using data of 84 Canadian manufacturing industries over the 1981-1996 period, we examine the impact of trade (in the form of foreign outsourcing) and high technology (in the form of i [...] This paper will be the first attempt in Canada to examine the impact of trade, in the form of foreign outsourcing, on the relative demand for skilled labour. [...] From the ASM, we derive the employment and compensation shares for production and non-production workers, and apply them to the total employment and total labour compensation in the KLEMS dataset. [...] The decline in the relative price of ICT assets reflects the higher technological progress in the production of ICT assets than in the production of non-ICT assets.