Search Results - subject:"skill‐biased technological change"

Decomposing the education wage gap: Everything but the kitchen sink

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Shiferaw, Menbere - 2010

This paper contributes to a large literature concerned with identifying the source of the widening wage gap between high school and college graduates by providing a comprehensive, multidimensional decomposition of wages across both time and educational status. Data from a multitude of sources...

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Patent Protection, Technological Change and Wage Inequality

Pan, Shiyuan; Zou, Heng-fu; Li, Tailong - China Economics and Management Academy, Central … - 2010

We develop a directed-technological-change model to address the issue of the optimal patent system and investigate how the optimal patent system influences the direction of technological change and the inequality of wage, where patents are categorized as skill- and labor-complementary. The major...

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Increasing Income Inequality: Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading

Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

employees’ relative productivity, i.e., skill-biased technological change, are unlikely to have caused the increase in income …

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The effect of innovation on skilled and unskilled workers during bad times

Arenas Díaz, Guillermo; Barge Gil, Andrés; Heijs, Joost - In: Structural change and economic dynamics : SC+ED 52 (2020), pp. 141-158

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Skill-biased technological change and endogenous labor supply in EU Transition Economies and the US

Cazzavillan, Guido; Olszewski, Krzysztof - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2009

In this paper skill-biased technological change is linked with endogenous labor supply which allows for unemployment …. This is a novel approach, as the literature on skill-biased technological change considers inelastic labor supply. Elastic … technological change. Our numerical analysis shows that if the skill-biased technological change is not followed by the growth of …

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Goldin and Katz and Education Policy Failings in Historical Perspective

Kling, Arnold; Merrifield, John - In: Econ Journal Watch 6 (2009) 1, pp. 2-20

In The Race Between Education and Technology, Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz employ a powerful theoretical framework to investigate how inequality is affected by the interrelation between changes in technology and changes in job-market skills. The investigation is carried out with great vision...

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Both Sides of the Story: Skill-biased Technological Change, Labour Market Frictions, and Endogenous Two-Sided Heterogeneity

Aricò, Fabio - Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis, University … - 2009

This paper presents a stylised framework to examine how skill-biased techÂ¬nological change and labour market frictions affect the relationship between economic expansion and unskilled unemployment. The first part of the analysis focuses on the investment decisions in skill-acquisition and...

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The Anatomy of Job Polarisation in the UK

Salvatori, Andrea - 2015

This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation over time and across skill groups in the UK between 1979 and 2012. The UK has experienced job polarisation in each of the last three decades, with growth in top jobs always exceeding that in bottom ones. Overall, top...

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Endogenous Skill Biased Technical Change: Testing For Demand Pull Effect

Francesco Bogliacino.; Lucchesex, Matteo - UN - RCE - CID - 2015

In this article we use the unification of Germany in 1990 to test the hypothesis that an increase in the supply of a production factor generates skill biased technical change. We test for this mechanism in the context of the model presented by Acemoglu and Autor (2011) that allows endogenous...

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ENDOGENOUS SKILL BIASED TECHNICAL CHANGE: TESTING FOR DEMAND PULL EFFECT

Bogliacino, Francesco; Lucchesex, Matteo - UN - RCE - CID - 2015

ENDOGENOUS SKILL BIASED TECHNICAL CHANGE: TESTING FOR DEMAND PULL EFFECT* Abstract In this article we use the unification of Germany in 1990 to test the hypothesis that an increase in the supply of a production factor generates skill biased technical change. We test for this mechanism in the...

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