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Technological Change and Educational Wage Differentials in Korea.

Choi, K.S. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1993

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Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality.

Acemoglu, D. - Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of … - 1997

I consider an economy where skilled and unskilled workers use different technologies. The rate of improvement of each technology is determined by a profit-maximizing R&D sector. When there is a high proportion of skilled workers in the labor for ce, the market for skill complementary...

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General equilibrium basic needs policy model, (updating part).

A, Kouwenaar - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1985

participation, labour supply, wages, income distribution, profit rates, capital ownership, etc.; examines nutrition, education and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966002

Capital-skill complementarity and inequality: a macroeconomic analysis

Krusell, Per; Ohanian, Lee E.; Rios-Rull, Jose-Victor; … - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - 1997

premium, or the ratio between the wages of skilled and unskilled labor. This paper develops a framework for understanding this …

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Is the market for college graduates headed for a bust? Demand and supply responses to rising college wage premiums

Bishop, John H. - In: New England Economic Review (1996) May, pp. 115-138

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What are the causes of rising wage inequality in the United States?

Bound, John; Johnson, George - In: Economic Policy Review (1995) Jan, pp. 9-17

During the last 15 years--especially in the 1980s--wage inequality rose in the United States. It appears that this can be explained by a secular shift in production functions favoring workers with intellectual rather than manual skills, together with slower growth in the supply of skilled labor...

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Explaining the growing inequality in wages across skill levels

Brauer, David A.; Hickok, Susan - In: Economic Policy Review (1995) Jan, pp. 61-75

This article investigates two prominent explanations--technology and trade--for growing wage inequality by educational attainment. The analysis indicates a prominent role for technological improvements and a modest but still significant role for increased competition from imports.

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Impact of Education on Inequality Across the Wage Distribution Profile in Cameroon : 2005-10

Baye, Francis Menjo - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2015

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

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Inequality of Earnings

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally,...

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Reconciling Globalisation and Technological Change: Growing Income Inequalities and Remedial Policies

Svizzero, Serge; Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2001

. Protectionism, increased provision of education and skill-enhancement, greater compensation via social services for the …

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