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Reassessing the Trends in the Relative Supply of College-Equivalent Workers in the U.S.: A Selection-Correction Approach

Elitas, Zeynep; Ercan, Hakan; Tumen, Semih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Among better-educated employed men, the fraction of full-time full-year (FTFY) workers is quite high and stable … and out of the FTFY status. We find that the well-documented deceleration in the growth rate of relative supply of college … relevance of the plain skill-biased technical change (SBTC) hypothesis. We conclude that what happens to the within …

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Reassessing the trends in the relative supply of college-equivalent workers in the US : a selection-correction approach

Elitaş, Zeynep; Ercan, Hakan; Tumen, Semih - 2014

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Reassessing the trends in the relative supply of college-equivalent workers in the US : a selection-correction approach

Elitas, Zeynep; Ercan, Hakan; Tumen, Semih - In: Journal of economic inequality 13 (2015) 2, pp. 249-273

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Accelerated Technological Progress - An Explanation for Wage Dispersion and a Possible Solution to the Productivity Paradox

Nikutowski, Oliver - 2007

Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...

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Accelerated technological progress : an explanation for wage dispersion and a possible solution to the productivity paradox

Nikutowski, Oliver - 2007

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Accelerated Technological Progress - An Explanation for Wage Dispersion and a Possible Solution to the Productivity Paradox

Nikutowski, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

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Schooling Investment, Mismatch, and Wage Inequality

Shephard, Andrew - 2019

This paper examines how policies, aimed at increasing the supply of education in the economy, affect the matching between workers and firms, and the wages of various skill groups. We build an equilibrium model where workers endogenously invest in education, while firms direct their technology...

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Inequality and technological change

Macera, Manuel; Tsujiyama, Hitoshi - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 15 (2024) 2, pp. 427-451

We study how technological change affects between‐ and within‐education‐group inequality in the United States. We develop a model with heterogeneous workers and firms in which the demand for skills is characterized by firms' recruiting behavior. We use the model to quantify the relative...

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Skill-biased technological change, training, and the college wage premium : a quantitative analysis

Palmer, Thomas - 2024

This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap in training participation between high- and low-skill...

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Math matters : education choices and wage inequality

Rendall, Andrew; Rendall, Michelle - 2014

SBTC is a powerful mechanism in explaining the increasing gap between educated and uneducated wages. However, SBTC …

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