La société des savoirs ? : un objectif encore lointain : les implications des changements dans le commerce international 1976-1989 sur les compétences professionnelles

Abstract

Everyone agrees that raising the level of wage-earners' initial training is a way to cope with competition from newly industrialized lands with low wages. It follows that, over the past quarter century, developed countries have been increasingly exporting goods produced by industries with high levels of job qualifications. Available data about both the exportation of given groups of products and the proportion of skilled labor used to produce them are analyzed. They yield the conclusion that the foregoing hypothesis does not receive confirmation.