The Impacts Of Technology On The Employment

The paper summarized the predecessors research on the biased technological progress,used the related data of China from 1990 to 2012 to make thorough research and exploration, then put forward the research conclusion and the corresponding policy recommendations. At first, the paper reviewed the study on biased technological progress the past few decades, inspected the technological progress towards and technical progress on the theoretical mechanism of total employment and the employment structure. Using the standardization system method, applied the related data of China from 1990 to 2012 to measure the Chinese elasticity coefficient of capital- labor and skilled- nonskilled labor,and built and calculated the index of China’s technological progress bias based on request parameters, found that China’s capital- labor elasticity coefficient is 0.55, skilled-nonskilled elasticity coefficient is 11.09, the technology progress bias index value in China is positive in every sample period. The outcomes meant that biased technical progress of China was towards the skilled labor, the increase of nationwide technique made skilled labor continuously replace the nonskilled labor, and accelerated the deviation trend. Then the paper empirically tested the impact of technology progress bias on the employment elasticity and the employment structure. The paper examined the role of technical bias to the employment respectively from theory and empirical aspects, found that the skilled-biased technological progress reduced the employment elasticity, meanwhile had a significant role in optimizing the employment structure. At last, this paper gave some suggestions such as deepening the reform of economic system, stimulating the vitality of the non-state, raising the proportion of service industry and strengthen the education and skills training.