2002 SkillBiasedTechnologicalChangea
- (Card & DiNardo, 2002) ⇒ David Card, and John E DiNardo. (2002). “Skill Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles."
Subject Headings: Wage Inequality, Technological Unemployment.
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2008
- (Autor et al., 2008) ⇒ David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, and Melissa S Kearney. (2008). “Trends in US Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists.” In: The Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(2).
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The rise in wage inequality in the U.S. labor market during the 1980s is usually attributed to skill-biased technical change (SBTC), associated with the development of personal computers and related information technologies. We review the evidence in favor of this hypothesis, focusing on the implications of SBTC for economy-wide trends in wage inequality, and for the evolution of wage differentials between various groups. A fundamental problem for the SBTC hypothesisis that wage inequality stabilized in the 1990s, despite continuing advances in computer technology. SBTC also fails to explain the closing of the gender gap, the stability of the racial wage gap, and the dramatic rise in education-related wage gaps for younger versus older workers. We conclude that the SBTC hypothesisis not very helpful in understanding the myriad shifts in the structure of wages that have occurred over the past three decades.
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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 2002 SkillBiasedTechnologicalChangea | David Card John E DiNardo | Skill Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles | 2002 |