Due to strict reliance on competitive labor markets, standard approaches which measure skill biased technical change (SBTC) conflate labor market distortions which prevent firms from choosing the efficient ratio between skilled and unskilled labor and `true' SBTC. This contrasts with recent...

Economic literature has so far produced very limited (country-level only) evidence on the magnitude of skilled biased technical change (SBTC) and not investigated at all the extent to which, coupled with labor market imperfections, it can be associated to an inefficient use of labor. We present...

We ask whether the productivity advantage of internationalized firms documented by the international trade literature can be more correctly interpreted in terms of proximity to the “technological frontier”. We provide a positive answer relying on a methodology (based on mixture models) to...

This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth...

This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth...