Changes in the demand for skilled labor within U. S. Manufacturing: Evidence from the annual survey of manufactures

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 367-397

  Berman, Eli ^a   Bound, John ^b   Griliches, Zvi ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; LABOUR DEMAND; MANUFACTURING; SKILLED LABOUR; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

USA;

EID: 0028595787     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2118467     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Abowd, John, “Appendix: The NBER Trade and Labor Markets File,” Immigration, Trade and the Labor Market, J. Abowd and R. Freeman, eds. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991), pp. 407-21.
2. Alic, John A., and Martha Caldwell Harris, “Employment Lessons from the Electronics Industry,” Monthly Labor Review, CIX (February 1986), 27-36.
3. Bartel, Ann P., and Frank R. Lichtenberg, “The Comparative Advantage of Educated Workers in Implementing New Technology,” Review of Economics and Statistics, LXIX (February 1987), 1-11.
4. Becker, G. S., Human Capital, 2nd ed. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1975).
5. Berman, Eli, John Bound, and Zvi Griliches, “Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor Within U. S. Manufacturing Industries: Evidence from the Annual Survey of Manufacturing,” NBER Working Paper No. 4255, 1993.
6. Berndt, Ernst R., and Zvi Griliches, “Price Indexes for Microcomputers: An Exploratoiy Study,” Price Measurements and Their Uses: Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume 57, Murray F. Foss, Marilyn E. Manser, and Allan H. Young, eds. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993), pp. 63-93.
7. Berndt, Ernst R., Catherine J. Morrison, and Larry S. Rosenblum, “High-Tech Capital Formation and Labor Composition in U. S. Manufacturing Industries: An Exploratory Analysis,” Paper presented in honor of Zvi Griliches’ sixtieth birthday, Jerusalem, May 1991, NBER Working Paper No. 4010, 1992.
8. Bound, John, and George Johnson, “Changes in the Structure of Wages During the 1980s: An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations,” American Economic Review, LXXXII (June 1992), 371-92.
9. Brown, Randall S., and Laurits R. Christensen, “Estimating Elasticities of Substitution in a Model of Partial Static Equilibrium: An Application to U. S. Agriculture, 1947 to 1974,” Modeling and Measuring Natural Resource Substitution, Ernst R. Berndt and Barry C. Field, eds. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981), pp. 209-29.
10. Coleman, Mary T., “Movement in the Earnings-Schooling Relationships,” Journal of Human Resources, XXVIII (1993), 660-80.
11. Dunne, Timothy, and James A. Schmitz, Jr., “Wages, Employer Size-Wage Premia and Employment Structure: Their Relationship to Advanced-Technology Usage in U. S. Manufacturing Establishments,” manuscript, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 1992. Econometrica, forthcoming.
12. Gill, Indermit S., “Technological Change, Education, and Obsolescence of Human Capital: Some Evidence for the U. S.,” mimeograph, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1990.
13. Goldin, Claudia, and Robert A. Margo, “The Great Compression: The Wage Structure in the United States at Midcentury,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, CVII (February 1992), 1-34.
14. Gray, Wayne, “Productivity Database,” NBER mimeo, 1989.
15. Gray, Wayne, ‘Upgrading Productivity Data Through 1989,” NBER mimeo, 1992.
16. Gorman, John A., John C. Musgrave, Gerald Silverstein, and Kathy Comins, “Fixed Private Capital in the United States,” Survey of Current Business, LXV (July 1985), 36-55.
17. Griliches, Zvi, “Capital-Skill Complementarity,” Review of Economics and Statistics, LI (November 1969), 465-68.
18. Griliches, Zvi, “Notes on the Role of Education in Production Functions and Growth Accounting,” Education, Income and Human Capital: Studies in Income and Wealth, 35, W. Lee Hansen, ed. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1970), pp. 71-114.
19. Gullickson, William, and Michael J. Harper, “Multifactor Productivity in U. S. Manufacturing, 1949-1983,” Monthly Labor Review, CX (1987), 18-28.
20. Katz, Lawrence F., and Kevin M. Murphy, “Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987: Supply and Demand Factors,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, CVII (February 1992), 35-78.
21. Katz, Lawrence F., and Ana Ravenga, “Changes in the Structure of Wages: The Ü. S. vs. Japan,” Journal of Japanese and International Economics, III (1989), 522-53.
22. Katz, Lawrence F., Gary W. Loveman, and David G. Blanchflower, “A Comparison of Changes in the Structure of Wages in Four OECD Countries,” Differences and Changes in Wage Structures, Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz, eds. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
23. Lillard, Lee A., and Hong W. Tan, Private Sector Training: Who Gets It and What Are Its Effects (Santa Monica, CA: The Rand Corporation, March 1986).
24. Machin, Stephen, “Changes in the Relative Demand for Skills in the UK Labor Market,” The Skills Gap and Economic Activity, A. Booth and D. Snower, eds., forthcoming.
25. Mark, Jerome S., “Technological Change and Employment: Some Results from BLS Research,” Monthly Labor Review, CX (April 1987), 26-29.
26. Mincer, Jacob, “Human Capital Responses to Technological Change in the Labor Market,” NBER Working Paper No. 3207, 1989.
27. Mincer, Jacob, “Human Capital, Technology, and the Wage Structure: What Do Time Series Show?” NBER Working Paper No. 3581, 1991.
28. Murphy, Kevin M., and Finis Welch, “Wage Premiums for College Graduates: Recent Growth and Possible Explanations,” Educational Researcher, XVIII (May 1989), 17-26.
29. Murphy, Kevin M., and Finis Welch, “The Structure of Wages,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, CVII (February 1992), 285-326.
30. Murphy, Kevin M., and Finis Welch, “Industrial Wages and the Rising Importance of Skill,” Uneven Tides: Rising Inequality in America, Sheldon H. Danziger and Peter Gottschalk, eds. (New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993), pp. 101-32.
31. Musgrave, John C., “Fixed Reproducible Tangible Wealth in the United States: Revised Estimates,” Survey of Current Business, LXVI (January 1986), 51-75.
32. National Science Foundation, Selected Data on Research and Development in Industry: 1989, principal author: John R. Gawalt (Washington, DC: National Science Foundation, 1991), mimeo, unpaged.
33. Scherer, Frederic M., “Using Linked Patent and R&D Data to Measure Interindustry Technology Flows,” R&D, Patents and Productivity, Zvi Griliches, ed. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984), Chapter 20, pp. 417-61.
34. Siegel, Donald, and Zvi Griliches, “Purchased Services, Outsourcing, Computers and Productivity in Manufacturing,” Output Measurement in the Service Sector: Studies in Income and Wealth, Vol. 56, Zvi Griliches, ed. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992), pp. 429-60.
35. Steinberg, Bruce, “The Temporary Help Industiy, An Annual Update for 1992” (Alexandria, VA: National Association of Temporary Services, 1993); reprinted from Contemporary Times (Summer 1993).
36. Uchitelle, Louis, “Temporary Workers Are on the Increase in Nation’s Factories,” New York Times, July 6, 1993, Section A, p. 1.
37. U. S. Bureau of the Census, Current Industrial Reports, Shipments to Federal Government Agencies, 1980 (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1981).
38. U. S. Bureau of the Census, Current Industrial Reports, 1982 Census of Manufactures (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1986).
39. U. S. Bureau of the Census, The Relationship Between the 1970 and 1980 Industry and Occupation Classification Systems, prepared by Paula L. Vines and John A. Priebe (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1989a).
40. U. S. Bureau of the Census, Current Industrial Reports, Manufacturing Technology 1988, prepared under the direction of Gaylord Worden (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1989b).
41. U. S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Manufactures 1987, MC87-S-7, Subject Series, Manufacturers Shipments to the Federal Government (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1991).
42. U. S. Department of Labor, BLS. Bulletin 2033, “Technology and Labor in Five Industries: Bakery Products/Concrete/Air Transportation/Telephone Commu-nication/Insurance,” written under the supervision of Rose N. Zeisel and Richard W. Riche, by Gary E. Falwell (bakery), William C. Perkins (concrete), Gustav A. Sallas (air transportation), Michael D. Dymmel (telephone), and Gustav A. Sallas (insurance) (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1979).
43. BLS. Bulletin 2104, “The Impact of Technology on Labor in Four Industries: Meat Packing/Foundries/Metalworking Machinery/Electrical and Electronic Equipment,” written under the supervision of John J. Macut, Chief, Division of Technological Studies; Industry reports were written under the supervision of Richard W. Riche, and Rose N. Zeisel; Authors: Robert V. Critchlow (electrical and electronic equipment), Gaiy E. Falwell (meat products), Richard W. Lyon (foundries), and A. Harvey Belitsky (metal working machinery) (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1982a).
44. BLS Bulletin 2137, “The Impact of Technology on Labor in Five Industries: Printing and Publishing/Water Transportation/Copper Ore Mining/Fabri-cated Structural Metal/Intercity Trucking.” Written under the supervision of John J. Macut, Chief, Division of Technological Studies; Richard W. Riche; and Rose N. Zeisel. Final stages of preparation took place in Division of Industry Productivity Studies, Charles W. Ardolini, Chief. Authors: Robert V. Critchlow (printing/publishing, water transportation), Richard W. Lyon (copper), Charles
45. L. Bell (fabricated structural metal), and A. Harvey Belitsky (trucking) (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1982b).
46. L. Bell, BLS Bulletin 2182, “The Impact of Technology on Labor in Four Industries: Hosiery/Folding Paperboard Boxes/Metal Cans/Laundry and Cleaning.” Written under the supervision of Rose N. Zeisel and Richard W. Riche, by A. Harvey Belitsky (hosiery), Richard W. Lyon (folding paperboard boxes), Charles L. Bell (metal cans), and Robert V. Critchlow (laundry and cleaning). (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1984).
47. L. Bell, BLS Bulletin 2242, “Technology and Its Impact on Labor in Four Industries: Tires/Aluminum/Aerospace/’ Banking.’’ Written under the supervision of Rose N. Zeisel and Richard W. Riche, by A. Harvey Belitsky (tires), Richard W. Lyon (aluminum), Charles L. Bell (aerospace), and Robert V. Critchlow (banking) (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1986).
48. U. S. International Trade Commission, Summary of Trade and Tariff Information: Semiconductors, Publication No. 841 (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1982).
49. L. Bell, Imports under Items 806.30 and 807.00 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States, 1984-1987, Publication No. 2144 (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1988).
50. Welch, Finis R., “Education in Production,” Journal of Political Economy, LXXVIII (January/February, 1970), 35-59.