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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
Acemoglu, Daron - 2000
This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns …
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Experience, Vintage and Time Effects in the Growth of Earnings : AmericanScientists, 1960-1970
Weiss, Yoram - 1976
This paper is concerned with the growth of individual earnings over time. Four aspects of time are distinguished: experience, age, vintage and calendar year. The first section of the paper provides a brief outline of a theory of planned growth in earnings. The second and main section of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478991
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Technological Innovation and Labor Income Risk
Kogan, Leonid - 2020
We examine the relation between technological progress and the riskiness of labor income. Motivated by a simple model of creative destruction, we draw a distinction between technological innovation advanced by the firm, or its competitors. Using administrative data from the United States, we...
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Technology, Trade, and Adjustment to Immigration in Israel
Gandal, Neil - 2000
immigration shock, existing research has found little evidence that it put downward pressure on Israeli wages. In this paper we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470774
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What is Driving US and Canadian Wages : Exogenous Technical Change or Endogenous Choice of Technique?
Beaudry, Paul - 1998
This paper proposes a new and unified explanation for the following trends observed over the last 25 years: (1) the increased returns to education, (2) the slow measured growth in TFP in an economy undergoing massive changes in its methods of production, and (3) the poor wage performance,...
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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?
Haskel, Jonathan E. - 1998
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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Productivity Measurement and the Impact of Trade and Technology on Wages : Estimates for the U.S., 1972-1990
Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472762
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Technological Change and Wages : An Inter-Industry Analysis
Bartel, Ann P. - 1997
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472883
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Technology, Trade, and Wages
Adams, James D. - 1997
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 …
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Labor Market Shifts and the Price Puzzle Revisited
Krueger, Alan B. - 1997
This paper examines the relationship between price growth and skill intensity across 150 manufacturing industries between 1989 and 1995. There are two main findings. First, wage growth and intermediate goods price increases are passed through to final product prices roughly in proportion to...
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