How does technical change affect the demand for labour? When will it tend to increase
unemployment? Recent advances in electronics have lent these old questions2 a fresh and …

This article compares the short‐and long‐run effects of technological progress on
employment. It presents a simple model of frictional unemployment capturing the negative …

The effect of technological advance on employment has been debated for over 168 years,
since desperate workers in the textile town of Nottingham, England, led by a certain Ned …

IN recent years, there has been considerable debate over whether technological change
creates unemployment. 1 Undoubtedly this is a complex issue, involving as it does both …

This paper provides a critical review of the impact of technical change on the structure of
relative wages and employment, and considers some alternative explanations for the …

This volume reports the proceedings of the European Production Studies Group meeting
held at Loughborough University in 1980. It contains a collection of papers on the economic …

Shortly before his death Schumpeter pronounced the long debate on the employment effects
of technological change to be “dead and buried”(1954, p. 684). However, in recent years not …

The relationship between technology and employment is a very old and controversial topic.
In the second section of this chapter a classical taxonomy, the roots of which can be found in …

This paper examines the effect of skilled-biased technological shocks on the structure of
wages and the composition of employment in a two-sector economy with a heterogeneous …

There is a growing concern in advanced countries that the position of less skilled workers
has deteriorated, either through their ability to secure jobs and/or their ability to earn a …