decades, including: ( 1 ) significant declines in real wages of low skill workers, particularly low skill males; ( 2 ) non …-monotone changes in wages at different parts of the earnings distribution during different decades; ( 3 ) broad-based increases in … diffusion of new technologies that directly substitute capital for labor in tasks previously performed by moderately skilled …

by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …