The Effects of ICT on Employment in terms of Skills: A Study on the Time Series Change

Abstract

This paper examines the change of information and communication technology (ICT)'s effects on employment demand in terms of skills for the period 1980-2011. We estimated the elasticity of skill demand with respect to ICT investment by time series based on the translog model. We provide evidence that ICT investment has positive effects on employment of high skill, negative effects on mid-low skill, while effects on mid-high skill are positive before the 1990s, negative after the 2000s, and effects on low skill are positive at the beginning of the 1980s, negative in the mid-1990s and after.