The Decline in Demand for Unskilled Labor: An Empirical Analysis Method and its Application to France
分析法国低技能就业份额下降的原因，发现主要源于低技能密集型行业国内需求疲软，而非计算机普及导致的技能替代；技术中性假设在法国行业层面成立，不平等机制与美国不同，根源在于技术与劳动力市场制度的互动。
The decline in the unskilled share of French employment is chiefly due to the slackness of domestic demand for those industries with the highest proportion of unskilled workers. The spread of computers has not been particularly conducive to substitution between skilled and unskilled labor. We test and accept the hypothesis of technical-progress neutrality within French industries. The mechanisms that generate inequality do not appear to be the same in France and in the United States. The source of inequality isn't so much technical progress per se as its interaction with the institutions that regulate the labor market. © 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology