The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of immigrants in the 1990s have not led to a large improvement in earnings as one might expect if growing computerization and the resulting technological change was leading to a...

The relationship between innovation and inequality is analysed on a panel of 148 countries for a 50 year span, from 1963-2012. A non linear relationship is found that links innovation to inequality, and which appears to be rather different whether variables representing either input or output of...

Current concern with relationships among particular technologies, capital and the wage structure motivates this study of the origins of technology-skill complementarity in manufacturing. We offer evidence of the existence of technology-skill and capital-skill (relative) complementarities from...

This paper estimates the effects of equipment investment on relative wages and employment of skilled labor and explores their dynamics. The basic hypothesis is that they are positive, due to either equipment-skill complementarity or to skill advantage in technology adoption. Using a panel data...

In the U.S., the skill premium and the non-production/production wage differential increased strongly from the late 1970s onwards. Skill-biased technological change is now generally seen as the dominant explanation, which calls for theories to explain the bias. This paper shows that the...

In a two-cone Heckscher-Ohlin model with CES preferences and a continuum of goods, adding new goods to the North's technology necessarily increases the Northern skill premium if the new goods are skilled-labor intensive, but may even increase the premium if they are unskilled-labor intensive....

Previous research has found evidence that wages in industries characterized as "high tech," or subject to higher rates of technological change, are higher. In addition, there is evidence that skill-biased technological change is responsible for the dramatic increase in the earnings of more...