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Cyclical Skill-Biased Technological Change

Balleer, Almut - 2009

Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this question, we construct a quarterly series for the skill premium from the CPS and use it to...

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Cyclical Skill-Biased Technological Change

Balleer, Almut - 2008

Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. The evidence for this finding is based on the persistent parallel increase in the skill premium and the supply of skilled workers. What are the implications of skill-biased...

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Between-group inequality may decline despite a rising skill premium

Aziz, Imran; Cortes, Guido Matias - 2021

A vast literature aimed at understanding the nature and causes of wage inequality focuses on the skill premium as a key object of interest. In an environment where both the skill premium and the share of skilled workers are changing, however, the between-skill-group component of inequality may...

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The price of polarization : estimating task prices under routine-biased technical change

Böhm, Michael - 2017

The debate about the impact of routine-biased technical change on wages revolves around the question whether …

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The price of polarization : estimating task prices under routine‐biased technical change

Böhm, Michael - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 2, pp. 761-799

This paper proposes a new approach to estimate task prices per efficiency unit of skill in the Roy model. I show how the sorting of workers into tasks and their associated wage growth can be used to identify changes in task prices under relatively weak assumptions. The estimation exploits the...

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Job polarization on local labor markets? : paper prepared for presentation at the Tasks IV Conference, Mannheim 29 July 2016

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang - 2016

In most industrialized countries, employment has grown predominately in jobs at the upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. This process of job polarization is well documented for a number of countries. We...

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Immigration, Endogenous Technology Adoption and Wages

Pandey, Manish - 2015

distribution. We use this change in skill distribution of workers to analyze the effect of immigration on wages. Our model allows …, we find that, in line with much of the related empirical literature, immigration has a small effect on average real wages … different skill levels in all states, and that the effect of immigration on wages and wage inequality varies systematically with …

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The hidden increase in wage inequality : skill-biased and ability-biased technology change

Michaelsen, Maren - 2011

from the OECD, wage regressions are estimated which identify the effect of innovative activity on wages - the personal …

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Technological change, skill demand, and wage inequality in Indonesia

Lee, Jong-Wha; Wie, Dainn - 2013

This paper examines the empirical implications of technological changes for skill demand and wage inequality in Indonesia. According to the National Labor Force Survey of Indonesia, the share of educated workers and wage skill premium increased significantly over 2003-2009 for overall industry...

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Are jobs more polarized in ICT firms?

Böckerman, Petri; Laaksonen, Seppo; Vainiomäki, Jari - 2016

We perform decompositions and regression analyses that test the routinization hypothesis and implied job polarization at the firm level. Prior studies have focused on the aggregate, industry or local levels. Our results for the abstract and routine occupation groups are consistent with the...

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