This paper assesses the role of technology in generating the growth of wage inequality in the 1980s and 1990s. Much of the existing literature fails to adequately address this issue for two reasons. First, most of the literature fails to examine whether technology's impact on skill demands was...

To mitigate rising unemployment, asks this economist, why not spend money on repairing schools, bridges, and roads? It would create jobs and boost productivity as well. Here are his remarks before a congressional committee.