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Will Information Technology Lead to a Winner-Takes-All Society?

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  • Gilles Saint-Paul

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We develop a model where workers have two skills, "productivity" and "creativity". Productivity is the number of units of output generated by the worker's effort on the job, while creativity describes the distribution of ideas that the worker will have. Ideas are applied in order to improve productivity over a firm, or "network". We then discuss how workers will be allocated to firms in equilibrium and how network size affects the distribution of income.

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  • Gilles Saint-Paul, 2001. "Will Information Technology Lead to a Winner-Takes-All Society?," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 63-64, pages 309-319.
    • Handle: RePEc:adr:anecst:y:2001:i:63-64:p:309-319
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    1. Rimler, Judit, 2003. "Ecset vagy egér. Mesterségbeli tudás és magas szintű technika [Brush or mouse. Occupational capabilities and high technology]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(12), pages 1095-1114.

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