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The Great Reversal in the Demand for Skill and Cognitive Tasks

Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

that demand in the years since 2000, even as the supply of high education workers continues to grow. We go on to show that …

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Spill-Overs from Good Jobs

Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The answer to this question is central to a proper assessment of many trade and industrial policies. In this paper, we explore this question by examining how predictable changes in...

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Cohort Patterns in Canadian Earnings: Assessing the Role of Skill Premia in Inequality Trends

Beaudry, Paul; Green, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

This paper documents the pattern of change in age-earnings profiles across cohorts and evaluates its implications. Using synthetic cohorts from the Survey of Consumer Finances over the period 1971 to 1993, we show that the age-earning profiles of Canadian men have been deteriorating for more...

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Endogenous Skill Bias in Technology Adoption: City-Level Evidence from the IT Revolution

Beaudry, Paul; Doms, Mark E.; Lewis, Ethan G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper focuses on the bi-directional interaction between technology adoption and labor market conditions. We examine cross-city differences in PC-adoption, relative wages, and changes in relative wages over the period 1980-2000 to evaluate whether the patterns conform to the predictions of a...

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Do Male-Female Wage Differentials Reflect Differences in the Return to Skill? Cross-City Evidence From 1980-2000

Beaudry, Paul; Lewis, Ethan G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

) declined significantly. At the same time, the returns to education increased. It has been suggested that these two trends may … differentials and returns to education over the 1980-2000 period. In parallel to the aggregate pattern, we find that male …-female wage differentials at the city levels moved in opposite direction to the changes in the return to education. We also find …

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