Technology adoption and workforce skill in U.S. manufacturing plants
By: by Timothy Dunne, Kenneth Troske.
Contributors: Troske, Kenneth R. 1962-
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1427; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1427
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States.; Skilled labor -- United States.; Manufacturing industries -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Description: "This paper examines the relationship between technology adoption and workforce skill in US manufacturing plants. Using information on the use and adoption of seven different information technologies, we find that the relationship between technology adoption and workforce skill varies across the technologies. Technologies more closely related to engineering and design tasks are associated with more skilled workforces. Technologies more closely related to production activities are not. When we examine the relationship between technology adoption and skill upgrading of workforces, we find little correlation between the use and/or adoption of technologies and changes in workforce skill at the plant level. However, we do find that plants adopting technologies related to engineering and design tasks do grow faster over the period 1987-1997"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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