Skills-displacing technological change and its impact on jobs: challenging technological alarmism?

Technological Change and Technological Strategy

Impact of Technological Change and Productivity on the Coal Market

The strong pace of improvement in coal industry labor productivity has been a major reason for the decline in coal minemouth prices that has taken place since 1979. The Annual Energy Outlook 2000 (AEO2000) forecast projects that labor productivity on a national basis will improve on average at a rate of 2.3 percent per year between 1998 and 2020, declining from an annual rate of 6.1 percent ach...

1 The Impact of Technological Change on Work and Wages

I. The Issues How technology affects work and pay has been an important topic in the study of labor markets and wage distribution. In this review article, we provide an overview of recent research in two particular areas: how technological change has affected wage and employment structures nationally, and how technological change has affected work at the establishment or plant level. With a few...

Uncertainty and Technological Change

I would like to begin with two generally accepted propositions: First, technological change is a major ingredient of long-term economic growth, and second, technological change is characterized by a high degree of uncertainty. Understanding the nature of these uncertainties and the obstacles to surmounting them is not a trivial matter. Rather, it goes to the heart of how new technologies are de...

Technological Change and Cities

The United States is in the midst of a technological revolution, driven in large part by rapid advances in microelectronics. There has been much speculation about the impacts of the “information superhighway” on society as a whole, but surprisingly little is known about the potential effects of this technology revolution on the spatial distribution of jobs and people either broadly or in urban ...