Technology and labor regulations: theory and evidence |
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| Authors: | Alberto Alesina Michele Battisti Joseph Zeira |
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| Affiliation: | 1.Department of Economics,Harvard University,Cambridge,USA;2.Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza,Universita Degli Studi di Palermo,Palermo,Italy;3.Department of Economics,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,Jerusalem,Israel |
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| Abstract: | This paper shows that different labor market policies can lead to differences in technology across sectors in a model of labor saving technologies. Labor market regulations reduce the skill premium and as a result, if technologies are labor saving, countries with more stringent labor regulation, which bind more for low skilled workers, become less technologically advanced in their high skill sectors, but more technologically advanced in their low skill sectors. We then present data on capital-output ratios, on estimated productivity levels and on patent creation, which tend to support the predictions of our model. |
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