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| Author: | Commander, S. Kollo, J. |
| Title: | The changing demand for skills. Evidence from the transition |
| Journal: | Economics of transition
2008 : VOL. 16:2, p. 199-221 |
| Index terms: | human capital employment labour markets skills transition economies Hungary Romania Russia |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Major job destruction and creation has been contained in the transition. This paper explores the skill content of these changes based on a detailed firm survey in three countries (henceforth as: ctrs). Transition is shown to have exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour having lost employment disproportionately. The skill content of blue collar (here as: b-c.) work has shifted upwards and technological change (here as: t-chng./t-chngs.) has accelerated shifts away from low-skilled labour. By 2000, the actual and desired levels of employment were close to each other. However, there is found some evidence of t-chngs. having given rise to shortages of skilled b-c. workers. Although there is variation across the sampled ctrs., this seems to be explained by the timing differences of reforms. |
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