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

technology (like R&D). Technologies can account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for the college educated in the …

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 …

has become an important part of work. This paper examines whether the need to coordinate an increasingly complex division … document the relationship between complexity and the employment of clerks using an early information technology (IT) revolution …

work. It is essentially a new paper in its current form, but it remains an important part of Jenny's legacy and a topic to … which she devoted much of her intellectual and policy efforts. We hope she would be satisfied with our work which, for us …

performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together …

This paper attempts to draw lessons for the New Economy from what economists know about technology dissemination and …