trade or skill-biased technological change. …

A vast literature aimed at understanding the nature and causes of wage inequality focuses on the skill premium as a key … object of interest. In an environment where both the skill premium and the share of skilled workers are changing, however …, the between-skill-group component of inequality may fall even as the skill premium rises - a pattern that is indeed …

The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced …-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive paths for skill-biased technical change (SBTC), and does not account for the … mis-measurement of relative skill prices and supplies (based on standard demographic composition-adjustments) and by …

parental backgrounds over this time period. Competing mechanisms, such as skill-specific labor supply shocks and skill …

both relate to learning-by-doing and R&D intensity. In addition, we endogenize the determinants of the skill-bias of labor … that are consistent with the cross-country data on inequality and skill-premia. …