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Technology, jobs and inequality : evidence from India's manufacturing sector

Kapoor, Radhicka - 2016

Faced with easier access to foreign technology and imported capital goods, firms in India's organised manufacturing sector adopted advanced techniques of production leading to increasing automation and a rise in the capital intensity of production. This has raised much concern about the ability...

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Short and Long Run Decompositions of OECD Wage Inequality Changes

Whalley, John; Edwards, Terence Huw - 2021

This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition into the component factors of trade surges in low wage products and technological change that has preoccupied the trade and wages literature. It argues that the length of...

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Wage inequality and the effort incentive effects of technological progress

Leith, Campbell B.; Li, Chol-won - 2001

To explain the rise in the college wage premium in developed economies in the past decades, the present paper examines the effects of technological progress on workers effort incentives, which determine the effective labor supply. Five effort incentive effects of technological progress are...

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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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Why has wage inequality evolved so differently between Japan and the US? : the role of the supply of college-educated workers

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Mori, Yuko - In: Economics of education review 52 (2016), pp. 29-50

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Short and Long Run Decompositions of OECD Wage Inequality Changes

Edwards, T. Huw - 2002

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Labor market polarization in Britain and Germany : a cross-national comparison using longitudinal household data

Wang, Xiupeng - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 65 (2020)

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Wage Inequality and the Effort Incentive Effects of Technological Progress

Leith, Campbell B.; Haruyama, Tetsugen - 2021

To explain the rise in the college wage premium in developed economies in the past decades, the present paper examines the effects of technological progress on workers' effort incentives, which determine the effective labor supply. Five effort incentive effects of technological progress are...

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Technology, outsourcing, and the demand for heterogeneous labor: Exploring the industry dimension

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - 2010

between labor of different skills (tasks) on the one hand, and technology as well as outsourcing on the other. Our findings …. Outsourcing often correlates negatively with the demand for labor performing explicit and problem-solving tasks. It is mainly … uncorrelated or positively correlated with the demand for labor performing interactive tasks. The outsourcing-related results …

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International outsourcing vs. ICT in explaining the wage gap in Italian manufacturing

Broccolini, Chiara; Lo Turco, Alessio; Presbitero, Andrea; … - 2007

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