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We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …
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We construct a multi-layer model of skills, occupations, and sectors. Technological progress among middle-skill occupations raises the employment shares and relative wages of lower- and higher-skill occupations (horizontal polarization), and those of managers over workers (vertical...
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