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 …

I review the two most popular explanations for the differential trends in wage inequality in
US/UK and Europe: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that …

This article contributes to the debate on skill-biased technical change by studying the
dynamics of skill supply and wage inequality in an endogenous growth model with ability …

We study the evolution of wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers in the
Netherlands for the years 1969-2020. Our analysis is based on estimates of the production …

This paper theoretically examines how skill-biased technological change influences the
skilled-unskilled wage inequality in developing countries. In the basic model, we find that in …

In this chapter we inspect economic mechanisms through which technological progress
shapes the degree of inequality among workers in the labor market. A key focus is on the …

Average wage growth is closely related to aggregate productivity growth across countries
and within countries over time. The commonality of patterns across OECD countries …

Increased wage inequality has been a sensitive policy issue in OECD economies in recent
decades. A shortcoming in the literature investigating its causes, especially with regard to …

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This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains
changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector …