Power-Biased Technological Change and the Rise in Earnings Inequality
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- Frederick Guy & Peter Skottz, 2005. "Power-Biased Technological Change and the Rise in Earnings Inequality," Working Papers 06, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
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Keywords
power-biased technical change; skill bias; efficiency wages; wage inequality; work intensity;JEL classification:
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2005-11-05 (All new papers)
- NEP-ICT-2005-11-05 (Information & Communication Technologies)
- NEP-LAB-2005-11-05 (Labour Economics)
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