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due to a weakness in technological innovation despite a high quality science base. This includes comparatively low and …
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We test the hypothesis that information and communication technologies (ICT) “polarize” labor markets, by increasing demand for the highly educated at the expense of the middle educated, with little effect on low-educated workers. Using data on the US, Japan, and nine European countries from...
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efficiently. The other margin (within industry) reflects capital deepening and technology catchup at the industry level. In …
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There has been a remarkable increase in wage inequality in the US, UK and many other countries over the past three decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such as age-gender-skill cells). A generally untested implication of many theories rationalizing the...
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We examine trends in wage inequality in the US and other countries over the past four decades. We show that there has been a secular increase in the 90-50 wage differential in the US and the UK since the late 1970s. By contrast the 50-10 differential rose mainly in the 1980s and flattened or...
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differences, unobserved region- industry factor quality differences and variation in production technology across industries. We … findings, including multiple cones of diversification, region-industry technology differences, agglomeration and increasing …
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Guy Michaels and colleagues show how new technologies are polarising the labour market, with the middle-skilled losing out most
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good fraction of thisinequality growth is due to technology-related increases in the demand for skilled workersoutstripping … clerks, leaving the demand for the lowest skilled service tasks largely unaffected.Finally, I argue that technology is partly …
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This article considers changes in healthcare professional work afforded by technology. It uses the sociology of … professionals’ literature together with a theory of affordances to examine how and when technology allows change in healthcare … materiality of technology. Two main lines of argument are developed here. First, that technological affordances do not solely lie …
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technology (like R&D). Technologies can account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for the college educated in the …
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