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Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality

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Acemoglu, D.

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I consider an economy where skilled and unskilled workers use different technologies. The rate of improvement of each technology is determined by a profit-maximizing R&D sector. When there is a high proportion of skilled workers in the labor for ce, the market for skill complementary technologies is larger and more effort will be spent in upgrading the productivity of skilled workers.

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Paper provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics in its series Working papers with number 97-14.

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Date of creation: 1997
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Keywords: TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE ; EDUCATION ; WAGES ; SKILLS;

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O14 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
O33 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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