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RSS skillSkill Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles
White Paper The rise in wage inequality in the U.S.labor market during the 1980s is usually attributed to skill-biased technical change (SBTC), associated with the development of personal computers and related information technologies. [25 May 2005]
Skill Acquisition and Firm Creation in Transition Economies
White Paper The paper also shows how policies are designed to encourage skill acquisition by workers to have a positive impact on the economy. The transition from plan to market has hinged on the development of a dynamic private... [25 Feb 2004]
Distance, Skill Deepening and Development: Will Peripheral Countries Ever Get Rich?
White Paper If skill- intensive sectors have higher trade costs, more pervasive input-output linkages, or stronger increasing returns to scale, we show theoretically that remoteness depresses the skill premium and... [20 May 2005]
Skill Gaps: Existence and Efficiency
White Paper This paper illustrates the way in which skill gaps may appear in an economy with endogenous technological change. As shown in this paper, such skill gaps appear as a consequence of too rapid rate of... [25 May 2005]
Skill Based Routing and WFM Scheduling
White Paper If your ACD has Skill Routing capabilities (such as Lucent’s Expert Agent Selection EAS), a primary call will go to its respective queue to be handled by an agent having that type of call as their primary or secondary... [09 Mar 2004]
We Can Work It Out: The Impact of Technological Change on the Demand for Low Skill Workers
White Paper In recent years, the idea of skill-biased technical change has become the consensus view about the current impact of technology on labour demand, namely that technical change leads to an increase in the demand for... [20 May 2005]
Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Redistributive Effects of Social Security Reform
White Paper This paper analyses the general equilibrium implications of reforming pay-as-you-go pension systems in an economy with heterogeneous agents, human capital investment and capital-skill complementarity. [31 May 2005]
The IT Consulting Skill Set
White Paper We may be selling technical skill, a project implementation, or a report comparing different technical options. What do we sell when we sell consulting? For any consultant who has worked for a professional services firm,... [02 Sep 2008]
Product Market Competition Returns to Skill and Wage Inequality
White Paper A simple model is developed in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to skill through the effect of competition on the sensitivity of profits to cost reductions. This paper shows that... [20 May 2005]
Employers Skill Survey: Case Study - Engineering
White Paper This study aims to build a deeper understanding of the changes taking place within the engineering sector, the factors that are dominant in those changes and the implications of those changes for skill requirements in... [20 May 2005]
Comparison of Simulated Ovary Training Over Different Skill Levels
White Paper This paper describes an initial attempt to compare performance levels of users of different skill levels on the Glasgow Horse Ovary Palpation Simulator (HOPS). Experimental participants were asked to identify the... [25 Feb 2004]
Beyond ACD - The Advantages of Skill-Based Routing in today's Contact Centers
White Paper This paper discusses skill-based routing, how it works, and what your contact center can gain by migrating from traditional ACD to more efficient and customized call treatment based on accurately matching call... [25 Feb 2004]
Faculty Pedagogical Approach, Skill, and Motivation in Today's Distance Education Milieu
White Paper This paper explores the pedagogical approach, skill and motivation factors that influence or are influenced by distance education instructors. Advancing distance education in today's technology-driven milieu requires a... [21 Apr 2005]
Assessing SAS Skill Level During the Interviewing Process
White Paper Interviewing is usually one of those things that many people would prefer not to do; whether for the interviewer or the interviewee. It requires a lot of mental effort for both sides. There is little or no opportunity to practice on... [02 Jun 2007]
UK school children praised for multimedia skill
News The BBC and the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), have recognised the most innovative uses of multimedia applications and Web pages in UK schools and sixth-form colleges. [15 Jul 1998]
