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Technology diffusion and its effects on social inequalities
Magalhães, Manuela; Hellström, Christian - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 37 (2013) C, pp. 299-313
trends in income inequality and labor and skills supplies observed in the United States between 1969 and 1996. The paper also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011065319
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427502
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003470547
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187360
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Computers as stepping stones? Technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013207026
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The supply of foreign talent: How skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes S. - 2021
An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012700491
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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021
An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703250
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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202834
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Dynamic Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Skills and Uninsured Idiosyncratic Risk
Faia, Ester; Kudlyak, Marianna; Shabalina, Ekaterina - 2021
's response to shocks and for the dynamics of inequality. We introduce occupational mobility, through a random choice model with … specialization of the production function. The model matches well the statistics on income and wealth inequality, and the patterns of … task encroaching on income and wealth inequality. We apply the model to the pandemic recession by adding an SIR block with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882370
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Dynamic labor reallocation with heterogeneous skills and uninsured idiosyncratic risk
Faia, Ester; Kudlyak, Marianna; Shabalina, Ekaterina - 2021
's response to shocks and for the dynamics of inequality. We introduce occupational mobility, through a random choice model with … specialization of the production function. The model matches well the statistics on income and wealth inequality, and the patterns of … task encroaching on income and wealth inequality. We apply the model to the pandemic recession by adding an SIR block with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651635