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Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step-by-step innovations as introduced by Aghion...
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The growing finance wage premium is related to a modest net reallocation of skilled workers from non-finance sectors into finance in a broad sample of 24 countries over 35 years. The reallocation is higher when the finance wage premium grows faster than the contribution of the financial sector...
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This article presents an analysis of the models that have been developed in the literature to account for the rise in wage inequality during the 1980s and the 1990s. These models build upon the assumption of an acceleration in the rate of technological progress associated with the diffusion of...
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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....
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closed economy from an endogenous growth model that endogenizes invention, innovation and diffusion of knowledge that is … various growth experiences of the U.S. over the last 40 years. Innovation is modeled as diffusing skill-biased knowledge … percentage of high-skilled workers in the innovative sector resulting in what I call the specialization in innovation effect …
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