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Research On The Impacts Of Technical Innovation On Employment

Posted on:2008-11-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F F LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189360215953278Subject:Technical Economics and Management
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Technological innovation play an important role in the economic development of all countries in the world, it is the sustained motivation for economic development. But there is also the negative impact of technological innovations on employment growth. Thus the relationship between technological innovation and employment has been greatly concerned about the people. This paper firstly analysis the relationship between technological innovation and employment with technological innovation theory as a starting point. Later described situation of the country's employment, on this basis, want to illustrate the relationship between technological innovation and employment by calculating. However, it is difficult to establish the number of the relations between the technological innovations and technological progress. Technical innovation through technological potential, to achieve the proliferation of technologies to achieve technological progress, but are still unable to achieve this calculation. Therefore, through technological advances impact of our total employment since the founding of our country to infer what the impact of technological innovation and China's total employment. Take information technology as an example, combining of industrial restructuring, compare of its influence and role in the structure of employment between United States and China. Finally, it discusses ways to develop China's Employment.This paper is divided into three parts.Firstly, the theoretical studies on the impact on technical innovation and employment.The relationship of technological innovation, economic growth and employment. The role of technological innovation in economic growth, it was seen as the effect of factor productivity growth in the economy. this understanding has an implicit assumption that the product does not consider the differences of products, only consider changes in the number of products. Improve productivity is the result of the production process innovation, output per unit of resources and time frame, thus it can improve the growth rate. However, the production process innovation lead to a productivity effect is a supply effect. Product innovation is supply different the same products to meet the new demand. It has opened up a new market for the production. The opening of new markets expand the production scale on the new basis , thereby stimulating economic growth. Therefore, the impact on economic growth in product innovation is a market effect. It is promote economic growth from the demand side rather than the supply-side. So product innovation in terms of economic growth is a demand effect.Inflation is associated with economic growth. Because price is impossible to change in the economic growth process, and in the long term, prices tended to rise. Many foreign economists use the model to analysis the relationship between inflation and employment. Economic growth of inflation can not simply say negative impact. The impact is not only associate with specific types of inflation and wage rate currency adjustments related to time, but also the impact is different in the short term and the long term. Economic growth, the accumulation of social wealth lead to the funds devoted to research is increase, the environment conduct research is improve, concept of technological progress is strengthened. This will be conducive to the emergence and into new technologies faster productivity. It can be said that the relationship between economic growth and technological progress is a complementary and mutually reinforcing.Secondly, the relationship of technological innovation, industrial restructuring and employment is as follow:Product innovation can create new products and spark new demand and generate new consumer market. The proliferation of new product innovation can create a series of new industries. It can lead the demand-pull effect on the economy, thus contributing significantly to the economic growth and increased employment. Technology innovation makes specific enterprises to reduce the demand for labor. However, from a macro perspective and a long-term significance to inspect, process innovations can increase labor productivity. But it has not been adversely affect empolyment, but on the contrary, it is increase in job opportunities. Petty - Clark theorem appoint that with economic development, labor resources will continue to gradually shift from the primary industry to higher industry. He also pointed out that the high-capacity industrial employment will keep growing, adaptability of the labor is the conditions that it can move among industry the smoothly. In short, technological innovation plays a positive role in the employment of labor.The role that technological innovation can promote the transformation of traditional industries is not less than it develop new industries the role played. Traditional industries in the national economy play an important role in many areas and large number. It is with broad prospects and closely related to the people's livelihood. In recent years,the development is fully explain the transformation of the traditional industries rely increasingly on the use and proliferation of technological innovation.Secondly, the impact of technological innovation on China's employment is as follows:The impaction of technological innovation on China's total employment. In this paper, through the relationship between technological innovation and technological progress, use of the concept of potential energy with which nature analogy, potential technical to explain the relationship between technological innovation and technological progress. However, the number relationship between them has not been possible to determine. Therefore, the paper calculated the impact of technological progress to rough estimate rend of technological innovation impact of total employment.The impact of technological innovation on the structure of employment is as follows: In urbanization, industrialization constant development process, the proportion of employment in different industries will change. The first significant reduction in the number of industries, and an increasing number of second and third industry employment will grow over the first industry. However, from a short-term point of view, due to technical innovations and social needs of mutation, the original work of the technical staff unable to adjust quickly to demand, so they become unemployment. Meanwhile, restrictions on labor skills can not be successful in the industry, the mobile sector. If the labor force in the agricultural sector obviously do not have the skills for employment in the industrial sector. This will inevitably result in the labor force in the agricultural sector to a slowdown in the industrial sector flows.Thirdly, the coordinated development between China's technology innovation and employment proposals are as follows.First, the national system innovation can improve the coordination of technical innovation and employment. It is to enhance learning and copying technology understanding, establish a scientific and technical knowledge production, found a application systems at the core of economic development and spread. Pay attention on proprietary operating performance on a national innovation system, various components of a national innovation system and the function of re-positioning.Secondly, the perspective of industrial restructuring and technological innovation can improve the employment structure of the coordinated development of urban and rural co-ordinate the implementation of the Employment Strategy.Thirdly, we must develop science and technology and industrial policies conducive to employment, the government should also take appropriate intervention policy promote benign interaction between technology and jobs.Finally, we should improve the social security system in order to protect the most basic and fair rights. Achieving sustainability of the income and expenditure in the economy and the restoration of market incentive mechanisms, ranging from simple protection for the unemployed to re-employmentIn short, in China, the current employment situation needs to take appropriate measures to improve this situation. This paper studies the relationship between technological innovation and employment, analysis how technical innovation impacts the total employment of and structural aspects of the role. Put a series of proposals to promote coordination between technological innovation and employment. This paper provides a certain basis for the state's industrial employment policy adjust to employment.
Keywords/Search Tags:technology innovation, technology advancement, employment, employment structure
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