Knowledge Spillovers and Wage Inequality: An Empirical Investigation of Knowledge-Skill Complementarity

This paper examines the importance of knowledge-skill complementarity in the process of contemporary economic growth. By analyzing Dutch manufacturing and carrying out an extensive spillover and wage inequality analysis, it is shown that knowledge-intensive sectors pay their high-skilled workers a relatively higher wage in the form of a wage premium, which is defined as the sector bias of technical change.

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Year of publication:	1999
Authors:	Bruinshoofd, Allard ; Hollanders, Hugo ; Weel, Bas ter
Institutions:	Maastricht : MERIT, Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology
Subject:	research and development

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Research Memoranda.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	The text is part of a series Research Memoranda Number 008
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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