Skill-biased technological change: Is there hope for the unskilled?

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Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2008
Volume: 100
Issue: 3
Pages: 439-441

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Weiss, Matthias (Maastricht University)

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Abstract

This paper presents a model in which perpetual skill-biased technological change does not lead to ever-increasing wage inequality. The model is consistent with the increase in wage inequality in the 1980s and the subsequent stabilization in the 1990s.

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repec:eee:ecolet:v:100:y:2008:i:3:p:439-441
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2026-01-29