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The evolution of inequality in productivity and wages: panel data evidence

Faggio, Giulia; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

untested implication of many theories rationalizing the growth of within-group inequality is that firm-level productivity … covering the manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors since the early 1980s. We find evidence that productivity inequality … increase in inequality between firms (and within industries). Increased productivity dispersion appears to be linked with new …

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Has ICT polarized skill demand? Evidence from eleven countries over 25 years

Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We test the hypothesis that information and communication technologies (ICT) “polarize” labor markets, by increasing demand for the highly educated at the expense of the middle educated, with little effect on low-educated workers. Using data on the US, Japan, and nine European countries from...

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Wage inequality, technology and trade: 21st Century evidence

Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper describes and explains some of the principal trends in the wage and skilldistribution in recent decades. There have been sharp increases in wage inequality across theOECD, beginning with the US and UK at the end of the 1970s. A good fraction of thisinequality growth is due to...

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The shrinking middle

Michaels, Guy; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Guy Michaels and colleagues show how new technologies are polarising the labour market, with the middle-skilled losing out most

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