This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns …

' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on violent crime. The paper also … instrumenting real wages of young workers. Using state-year-industry specific technology shocks as instruments yields elasticities …

that exclusion did not affect U.S. agricultural wages or employment. Important mechanisms include adoption of less labor …

We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and … outsourcing and expenditures on high-technology equipment can explain a substantial amount of the increase in the wages of …

Previous research has found evidence that wages in industries characterized as high tech,' or subject to higher rates … positive relationships between technological change and wages, and between technological change and the education premium. We …

trade on U.S. wages. The standard model of general equilibrium presented shows that each effect tends to be opposite in sign … same, not oppo- site effect on wages at both skill levels; a rise in the foreign share in world innovation or US patents … decreases US wages; an increase in the US share in world innovation or US patents raises US wages, especially for the less …

immigration shock, existing research has found little evidence that it put downward pressure on Israeli wages. In this paper we …