Can temporary protection from trade with advanced economies foster the development of 'infant industries' in developing … regions to build capacity in the new technology of mechanised cotton spinning and later to compete successfully in …

such unique historical 'experiments' helps understand how firms and markets respond when new technology leads to a dramatic …

such unique historical 'experiments' helps understand how firms and markets respond when new technology leads to a dramatic …

technology (like R&D). Technologies can account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for the college educated in the … growth of ICT had greater increases in relative demand for high educated workers and bigger falls in relative demand for … middle educated workers. Trade openness is also associated with polarization, but this is not robust to controls for …

caused by trade liberalization results from technology upgrading by new exporters. …This paper analyzes the impact of trade integration on wage inequality when there is heterogeneity across both workers … assortative matching between worker skill and firm technology explains the employer size-wage premium and the exporter wage …

good fraction of this inequality growth is due to technology-related increases in the demand for skilled workers … outstripping the growth of their supply. Since the early 1990s, labour markets have become more polarized with jobs in the middle … clerks, leaving the demand for the lowest skilled service tasks largely unaffected. Finally, I argue that technology is …

minimum wage and trade unions) continues to offer the best explanation for the observed patterns of change. …

? How are wages determined? What role do labor market dynamics play in explaining business cycles and growth? The survey …

The austerity programme of the coalition government knocked at least one percent per year off growth in the first two …