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 …

firm survey from the 1840s, we shed light on the mechanism: upper-tail knowledge raised productivity in innovative …

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 …

investigation into the relationship between a good's factor intensity in production and its income elasticity of demand in … and income elasticity of demand for several types of preferences, with and without accounting for trade costs and … composition of trade. Furthermore, an equal rise in productivity in all sectors in all countries leads to a rising skill premium …

This paper quantifies the roles of increases in the demand for skill-intensive output, the efficient scale of service … progress. The rising scale of services, the rising demand for skill-intensive output, and skill-biased technical change all …

unskilled-labor-biased. Increasing basic knowledge causes a growth takeoff, an income-led demand for fewer educated children …