Changes in the Functional Structure of Firms and the Demand for Skill
分析了法国制造业企业职业结构的变化，发现企业增加了从事新产品设计和营销的工程师比例，减少了行政相关的高技能专家以及生产相关的高、低技能工人比例，并构建劳动需求模型说明技术变革的作用。
We analyze recent changes in the occupational structure of French manufacturing firms. Firms employ a greater proportion of engineers working on the design and marketing of new products and a lower proportion of high-skill experts working in administration-related activities. Firms have also reduced the share of production-related activities at both the levels of high-skill and low-skill workers. We develop a labor demand model that shows the role played by technological change. New technologies make it possible to allocate more human resources to the activities that are the most difficult to program in advance.