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This article applies recent advances in productivity and efficiency measurement to the evaluation of skill … nonneutral technical change between production and nonproduction labor in U.S. manufacturing industries over the 1959-1996 period … skill-biased technical change effects are most evident prior to 1983. This predates the diffusion of personal computer …
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There are few concentrated studies on wage inequality across local labor markets at the city or metropolitan level. This paper studies the changes in wage inequality among 170 metropolitan areas by using micro-level data from the U.S. Census and American Community Survey from 1980 to 2019. We...
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distributions generally overlap. The model shows that the impact of any given skill-biased technical change on wage inequality is …
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.S. manufacturing. The share of skilled labor embedded in intermediate inputs correlates strongly with the skill share employed in final …This paper presents a novel stylized fact and analyzes its contribution to the skill bias of technical change in U … production. This finding points towards an intersectoral technology-skill complementarity (ITSC). Together with input …
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One consequence of demographic change is substantial shifts in the age distribution of the working age population. As the baby boom generation ages, the usual historical pattern of there being a high ratio of younger workers relative to older workers is increasingly being replaced by a pattern...
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We analyse the information in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles to characterize the structure of labour demand. Two dimensions, an intellectual factor and a dexterity factor capture most variation in job requirements. Job complexity in relation to Things correlates highly with the dexterity...
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employees, as well as, for those of high and low skill in US manufacturing for the period 1995 - 2005. We find strong evidence …-firm exports but unaffected by intra-firm imports. The last two findings put together, suggest that low-skill intensive stages of …
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employees, as well as, for those of high and low skill in US manufacturing for the period 1995 - 2005. We find strong evidence …-firm exports but unaffected by intra-firm imports. The last two findings put together, suggest that low-skill intensive stages of …
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