Abstract

Although technological change is certainly associated with the skill bias (increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in developed countries over the last decades, recent papers have shown that upskilling is more a function of the reorganisational strategy than a consequence of technological change alone. In terms of policy prescriptions, these findings suggest that reorganisational strategies should be coupled with intervention regarding human resource management at the microeconomic level (on-the-job training aimed at transferring non-cognitive capabilities to workers), and general education and off-the-job training at the macroeconomic level.