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Stefan Sacchi, Alexander Salvisberg & Marlis Buchmann, 2005:
Long-Term Dynamics of Skill Demand in Switzerland
from 1950-2000
in Kriesi, Hanspeter, Peter Farago, Martin Kohli & Milad Zarin-Nejadan
(Hg.), Contemporary Switzerland: Revisiting the Special Case. Houndmills:
Palgrave Macmillan.
Abstract:
Our contribution investigates long-term shifts in skill demand in
Switzerland with respect to both the level of formal skills and the
type of occupational certificate. The former represents the most obvious
'vertical' dimension of changing job requirements, whereas the latter,
no less important in a highly segmented labor market, reflects the
'horizontal' differentiation along occupational lines. We argue that
two sources are responsible for any change in the aggregate composition
of skill demand: The shifting sectoral composition of the economy
and the intra-sectoral adaptations related to new technologies and
the changing work organization. Against this background, we assess
the relative impact of inter- and intra-sectoral change on the long-term
trends in skill demand. We apply novel indicators of technological
change within sectors to account for the latter. The empirical analyses
are based on a representative random sample of job ads published between
1950 and the year 2000 in the German-speaking part of Switzerland.
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