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The March of the Techies : Technology, Trade, and Job Polarization in France, 1994-2007
Harrigan, James - 2016
Using administrative employee-firm-level data on the entire private sector from 1994 to 2007, we show that the labor market in France has polarized: employment shares of high and low wage occupations have grown, while middle wage occupations have shrunk. During the same period, the share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995986
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Computing Inequality : Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?
Autor, David H. - 2007
This paper examines the effect of technological change and other factors on the relative demand for workers with … different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage differentials. A simple supply-demand framework is … U.S. labor market in each decade since 1940 and from 1990 to 1995. The results suggest that the relative demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778847
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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
Acemoglu, Daron - 2011
This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126042
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Technology and Jobs : Secular Changes and Cyclical Dynamics
Dunne, Timothy; Haltiwanger, John; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2021
In this paper, we exploit plant-level data for U.S. manufacturing for the 1970s and 1980s to explore the connections between changes in technology and the structure of employment and wages. We focus on the nonproduction labor share (measured alternatively by employment and wages) as the variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223326
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Technology, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy
Davis, Donald R. - 2021
Arguably the most important development in recent decades in US factor markets is the decline in the relative wage of the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been identified as a key reason for the rising US wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226172
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Skills, Tasks and Technologies : Implications for Employment and Earnings
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
supply and demand for skills by assuming two distinct skill groups that perform two different and imperfectly substitutable … complementing either high or low skill workers, can generate skill biased demand shifts. In this paper, we argue that despite its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116038
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Productivity Measurement and the Impact of Trade and Technology on Wages : Estimates for the U.S., 1972-1990
Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021
our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the endogeneity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219298
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Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium
Harrigan, James - 2011
raises the demand facing highly competitive skill-intensive firms. In our model, only the lowest-cost firms participate in … the global economy exactly along the lines of Melitz (2003). In addition to differing in their productivity, firms differ … both greater trade volumes and an increase in the relative demand for skill, as the lowest-cost/most-skilled firms expand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118253
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Luddites and the Demographic Transition
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2010
unskilled-labor-biased. Increasing basic knowledge causes a growth takeoff, an income-led demand for fewer educated children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758155
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Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure : Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2010
relative demand for more-educated workers for at least the past century, increases in the supply of skills, from rising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759725