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 …

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 …

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 …

In this paper we examine the possible distributional impacts of new trade barriers associated with the new Trade and … new trade barriers. Looking across areas, we find that exposure to new Brexit trade barriers is uncorrelated with measures …

-quarter of changes in labor-market outcomes (wage inequality then and manufacturing job losses now) was predicted by trade …Trade and technological change continually alter the workplace and labor-market outcomes, with consequences for economy …

market policies, regulations and institutions in OECD countries over the past quarter century, up to the Great Recession. It … identifies the relevant pathways between macro-economic developments and earnings inequality among the whole working … inequality; it transmitted inequality mainly through raising wage dispersion. Economic globalisation, in terms of both rapidly …