may be amplified by international competition. In countries with a larger distance to the technology frontier, however …

demand: the complementarity between technology and skilled and unskilled labor. Our results identify parameters that are …

puzzles, like the productivity paradox for example, a special emphasis is given to the analysis of deindustrialization and the …

demand: the complementarity between technology and skilled and unskilled labor. Our results identify parameters that are …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxian" zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per … capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the …

a panel of European countries over the period 1265-1850 using agricultural productivity as a measure of technology … agriculture, and provide evidence for technology-driven inequality in Britain between 1525 and 1895. We confirm these results for …. Finally, using patents in the period 1800-1980, we find a technology-driven inequality reversal around the onset of the …

, our theory predicts that faster economic growth promotes inequality. …