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Luddites and the Demographic Transition
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2010
, and the transition to skill-biased technological change. The simulated model tracks British industrialization in the 18th …
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Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution : Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912
Chin, Aimee; Juhn, Chinhui; Thompson, Peter - 2022
Using a large, individual-level wage data set, we examine the impact of a major technological innovation the steam engine on skill demand and the wage structure in the merchant shipping industry. We find that the technical change created a new demand for skilled workers, the engineers, while...
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Immigrant Labour Market Assimilation and Arrival Effects : Evidence from the UK Labour Force Survey
Clark, Kenneth - 2006
We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and nonwhite male immigrants drawn from the Labour Force Survey between 1993 and 2002. Immigrants who arrived to enter the labour market are distinguished from those who arrived to complete their education. Diverse...
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The Evolution of Inequality in Productivity and Wages : Panel Data Evidence
Faggio, Giulia - 2010
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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Trade, Technology and U.K. Wage Inequality
Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2021
The U.K. skill premium fell from the 1950s to the late 1970s and then rose very sharply. This paper examines the contributions to these relative wage movements of international trade and technical change. We first measure trade as changes in product prices and technical change as TFP growth....
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Short and Long Run Decompositions of OECD Wage Inequality Changes
Whalley, John; Edwards, T. Huw - 2021
This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition into the component factors of trade surges in low wage products and technological change that has preoccupied the trade and wages literature. It argues that the length of...
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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?
Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2022
This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of sbtc that determines sbtc's...
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Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980
Kwon, Oh-Hyun - 2011
Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in differences of average wages among major industry groups parallels increases in wage and income inequality not only between rural and urban sectors but within the urban economy as...
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The Effects of Immigration Quotas on Wages, the Great Black Migration, and Industrial Development
Xie, Bin - 2017
This paper exploits the exogenous and differential immigrant supply shocks caused by the immigration quota system in the 1920s to identify the causal effects of the immigration restriction on the US manufacturing wages, the Great Migration, and industrial production between 1920 and 1930. I find...
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The Relative Productivity Hypothesis of Industrialization : The American Case, 1820-1850
Goldin, Claudia; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021
. Industrialization in the Northeast was substantially powered during these decades by female and child labor, who comprised about 45% of … hypothesis of early industrialization is that such development proceeds first in areas whose agriculture, for various reasons … develop seven propositions relating to the process of early industrialization. Data from two early censuses of manufactures …
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