Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192286 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 304
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Using matched worker/plant level data for Norway, theories explaining the change in skill composition are assessed using direct evidence on the job creation and destruction for high, medium and low skilled workers. Skill based job creation is analysed in detail for plants in a high-skill service sector and in low- and high-tech manufacturing sectors. Given a compressed wage structure in Norway and increased supply of high skilled workers, the supply of skills may also explain the changed skill composition. In order to disentangle the supply and demand effects, we fix the skill level by analysing the job creation process for skills within cohorts of workers.
Subjects: 
Job creation
heterogeneous workers
heterogeneous plants
technical change.
JEL: 
J23
J63
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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