Both academia and policymakers express a strong belief in higher average education levels exerting a narrowing impact on wage inequality in general and gender wage gaps in particular. The present paper scrutinizes whether or not this effect extends to R&D- and export-intensive branches such as...

This paper explores employment trends and structural changes in the labour force of Finnish manufacturing over the 10-year period 1985_95 and analyses the role thereby played by technological progress. The main results may be summarised as follows. The employment- enhancing role of high-tech...