to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent … increase in inequality is most likely due to an acceleration in skill bias. In contrast to twentieth century developments, most … technical change during the nineteenth century appears to be skill-replacing. I suggest that this is because the increased …

variation in the pattern of technological change. Whatever is causing this increased demand for skill, the evidence from Canada …

raising the skill premium …

supply and demand for skills by assuming two distinct skill groups that perform two different and imperfectly substitutable … complementing either high or low skill workers, can generate skill biased demand shifts. In this paper, we argue that despite its … decades, including: (1) significant declines in real wages of low skill workers, particularly low skill males; (2) non …

The rise in wage inequality in the U.S. labor market during the 1980s is usually attributed to skill-biased technical …

they are skilled through alternative routes--namely their work experience. Using the skill requirements of a worker …'s current job as a proxy of their actual skill, we find that though both groups of workers make transitions to occupations … higher-wage occupations where the skill requirements exceed the workers' observed skill. This measured opportunity gap offers …

detrimental to low skill workers when the new technology is skill-biased and exhibits capital-skill complementarity. Using matched …

This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains changing skill premia …, rising (falling) skill premia are caused by more extensive sbtc in skill-intensive (unskill-intensive) sectors. Second, we … strongly supports the hypothesis. Among ten countries we find a strong correlation between changes in skill premia and the …