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

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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Job polarization and task-biased technological change : evidence from Sweden, 1975 - 2005

Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 117 (2015) 3, pp. 878-917

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Trade liberalization and wage inequality : evidence from the US states

Li, Xiaofeng - In: Frontiers of economics in China : selected publications … 10 (2015) 3, pp. 527-539

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Management compensation and firm-level income inequality

Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - 2008

sources such as technological progress and skill-biased technological change are taken into account. We also show that a …

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Trade openness and the demand for skills: evidence from Turkish microdata

Meschi, Elena; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - 2008

In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm-level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic panel data setting using a unique database of 17,462 firms,...

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Management Compensation and Firm-Level Income Inequality

Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

sources such as technological progress and skill-biased technological change are taken into account. We also show that a … inequality, two-sector search model, skill-biased technological change, personnel data Corresponding author: Anders … inequality such as technological progress and skill-biased technological change are unable to produce similar income distribution …

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Trade Openness and the Demand for Skills: Evidence from Turkish Microdata

Meschi, Elena; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Keywords: globalisation, skills, skill-biased technological change, technology transfer, GMM-SYS Corresponding author …-intensive technologies. In other words, trade and FDI may induce and foster skill-biased technological change (SBTC). This paper … reasonably incorporate technological upgrading - they found that imported skill-biased technological change is one of the …

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Wage Inequality in Post-Reform Mexico

Airola, Jim; Juhn, Chinhui - In: Journal of Income Distribution 17 (2008) 1, pp. 110-134

Using the ENIGH covering 1984-2002, we analyze wages and employment in Mexico after trade liberalization and domestic reforms. We find that wage inequality and returns to post-secondary schooling increased rapidly during 1984-1994 but stabilized since that period. The end of inequality growth...

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Directed technological change, skill complementarities and sectoral productivity growth: evidence from industrialized countries during the new economy

Strobel, Thomas - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 42 (2014) 3, pp. 255-275

ICT-skill complementarities and skill-biased technological change (SBTC) during the New Economy. In particular …

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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of Economic Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - In: Journal of Economic Issues 48 (2014) 1, pp. 123-154

I discuss the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change. I also compare the relative explanatory power of competing economic theories, while detailing the macro, sectoral, and micro evidence on the issue with reference to...

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