minimum wage and trade unions) continues to offer the best explanation for the observed patterns of change. …

good fraction of thisinequality growth is due to technology-related increases in the demand for skilled workersoutstripping … the growth of their supply. Since the early 1990s, labour markets have becomemore polarized with jobs in the middle third … clerks, leaving the demand for the lowest skilled service tasks largely unaffected.Finally, I argue that technology is partly …

technology (like R&D). Technologies can account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for the college educated in the … growth of ICT had greater increases in relative demand for high educated workers and bigger falls in relative demand for … middle educated workers. Trade openness is also associated with polarization, but this is not robust to controls for …

, education, and skills for consumption (rather than production) - can importantly affect patterns of economic growth and …

This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless … global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and … converges towards egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …

This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … rate on the equilibrium growth rate as well as on the income distribution. We show that the relationship between growth and …

personal characteristics, country and year fixed effects, more freedom and economic growth both reduce revolutionary support …. To reduce support by the same amount requires adding 14 percentage points on to the GDP growth rate. Being Muslim in a …

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …