understanding recent increases in inequality. The empirical analysis performed herein involves a panel of 38 manufacturing and …

This paper analyses employment transitions and workers' skills in Brazil using a random sample from the universe of … findings confirm that workers who use non-routine cognitive skills intensively experience the highest employment growth rates …

In this chapter we inspect economic mechanisms through which technological progress shapes the degree of inequality … among workers in the labor market. A key focus is on the rise of U.S. wage inequality over the past 30 years. However, we … also pay attention to how Europe did not experience changes in wage inequality but instead saw a sharp increase in …

We study how technological change affects between‐ and within‐education‐group inequality in the United States. We … develop a model with heterogeneous workers and firms in which the demand for skills is characterized by firms' recruiting … main driver of the increase in between‐ and within‐group inequality. Technological change in firm productivity, in the form …

Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified … pure “trade”- effects, supporting the Heckscher-Ohlin predictions of the effects of trade on wage inequality once the …