This paper shows that different labor market policies can lead to differences in technology across sectors in a model of labor saving technologies. Labor market regulations reduce the skill premium and as a result, if technologies are labor saving, countries with more stringent labor regulation, which bind more for low skilled workers, become less technologically advanced in their high skill sectors, but more technologically advanced in their low skill sectors. We then present data on capital-output ratios, on estimated productivity levels and on patent creation, which tend to support the predictions of our model.

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技术和劳工法规：理论和证据

本文表明，在劳动力节省技术的模型中，不同的劳动力市场政策可能会导致跨部门的技术差异。劳动力市场法规降低了技能溢价，因此，如果技术可以节省劳动力，则劳动法规更加严格的国家（对低技能工人的约束更大），其高技能部门的技术水平会下降，而其低技能部门的技术水平会上升技能部门。然后，我们提供有关资本产出比，估计的生产率水平和专利创造的数据，这些数据倾向于支持我们模型的预测。