lead to higher inequality across firms, increased segregation of labour markets and decreased within-firm inequality. This … workplace systems. Our results suggest that HPWOs increase both across and within firm inequality. We do not find evidence …

In this chapter we inspect economic mechanisms through which technological progress shapes the degree of inequality … among workers in the labour market. A key focus is on the rise of US wage inequality over the past 30 years. However, we … also pay attention to how Europe did not experience changes in wage inequality but instead saw a sharp increase in …

This Paper provides an interpretation for the recent rise in residual wage inequality which is consistent with the … this mechanism can account for 30% of the surge in residual inequality in the US economy (or for most of its transitory …

This Paper studies a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to … with a lower knowledge intensity; their wages fall, which reduces inequality between them and the least skilled. Those who … skilled, which tends to increase inequality. The least skilled do not participate in this competition, as they are not …

We argue that inequality and rapid deunionization are related, and that skill-biased technical change has been an … important factor in deunionization as well as in the rise in inequality. Skill-biased technical change causes deunionization … support of unions. Our approach implies that although deunionization is not the underlying cause of the increase in inequality …