Hornstein, Andreas; Krusell, Per; Violante, Giovanni L. - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 3 (2005) 5, pp. 1007-1057
We examine how technological change affects wage inequality and unemployment in a cali-brated model of matching frictions in the labor market. We distinguish between two polar cases studied in the literature: a "creative destruction" economy, where new machines enter chiefly through new matches...