Although microeconomic studies find a positive relationship between R&D and skill premia,
much of the recent rise in US wage inequality was accompanied by slowing labor …

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There is a growing concern in advanced countries that the position of less skilled workers
has deteriorated, either through their ability to secure jobs and/or their ability to earn a …

A high proportion of skilled workers in the labor force implies a large market size for skill-
complementary technologies, and encourages faster upgrading of the productivity of skilled …

Karl Marx predicted a world in which technical innovation would increasingly devalue and
impoverish workers, but other economists thought the opposite, that it would lead to …

The recent changes in the US wage structure are often linked to the new wave of capital-
embodied information technologies. The existing literature has emphasized either the …

The relationship between technological change and the earnings of less-skilled workers is
one of the oldest issues in economics (Berg 1984). Renewed interest in the link was …

This paper assesses the role of technology in generating the growth of wage inequality in
the 1980s and 1990s. Much of the existing literature fails to adequately address this issue for …

In recent literature skill-biased technical change has been viewed as a major cause for
wage inequality. Some modelling and presentation of stylized facts have been undertaken …

This article examines the determinants of changes in the US wage structure from 1976 to
2000. Our main empirical observation is that changes in both the level of wages and the …