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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"skill biased technical change"”.
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Information technology and the rise of the power law economy
… distribution has slowed, suggesting a slowing of skill-biased technical change, (3) more individuals now select into the power law economy, (4) there is more skewness within that economy.
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Three essays on unemployment, self-selection and wage differentials
… yet largely neglected ingredient in these recent changes. In a special signaling model, workers face the same costs, but can expect different returns from college. Allocation of ability into skill is determined by the equilibrium skill premium. Incorporating a production of higher education, the …
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Essays on labour market segmentation in Japan
… likelihood of having an equilibrium with cross-skill matching even if the model contains different turnover rates to heterogeneous jobs. The quantitative implications give the prediction that the unemployment rate of low-productivity workers increases, inequality grows, and welfare decreases as …
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Essays on economic growth and informational frictions
… I take a CES production function implied by a Skill-Biased technical change model and fit this production function to the data. The calibration results give evidence of the importance of including different skills to account for the observed income differences over time. I also show that the …
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Essays on wage and productivity disparities: empirical studies with a regional focus in Germany and Brazil
… force if the spatial boundaries of regions are changed. In general, the data demonstrate that the strength of agglomeration economies varies largely between sectors. Only for a subset of industries, some positive evidence is detected for knowledge spillovers. Chapter 2 analyzes labor market …