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An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...
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This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
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's response to shocks and for the dynamics of inequality. We introduce occupational mobility, through a random choice model with … specialization of the production function. The model matches well the statistics on income and wealth inequality, and the patterns of … task encroaching on income and wealth inequality. We apply the model to the pandemic recession by adding an SIR block with …
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We study how technological change affects between‐ and within‐education‐group inequality in the United States. We … main driver of the increase in between‐ and within‐group inequality. Technological change in firm productivity, in the form … of higher firm productivity dispersion, plays a less important role in explaining rising inequality, except for the …
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Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
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A vast literature aimed at understanding the nature and causes of wage inequality focuses on the skill premium as a key …, the between-skill-group component of inequality may fall even as the skill premium rises - a pattern that is indeed … therefore not always useful in terms of understanding why broad inequality measures are changing. …
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The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...
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We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of intermediate complexity are assigned to capital. Interior...
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This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories … are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill …-recursive long-runrestrictions.Results show that skill-biased technology shocks reduce hours worked but increase inequality …
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