The Double Role Of Skilled Labor, New Technologies And Wage Inequality
BP2-STS
- Egger, Hartmut University of Zurich
- Grossmann, Volker ORCID University of Fribourg
- 2005
Published in:
- Metroeconomica. - Wiley. - 2005, vol. 56, no. 1, p. 37-57
Economic theory
Economics
Income inequality
Inequality
Labor supply
Labour
New technology
Skilled workers
Studies
Technological change
Wage differential
Wages
Wages & salaries
Economics and Econometrics
English
We examine the relationship between the supply of skilled labor, technological change and relative wages. In accounting for the role of skilled labor in both production activities and productivity-enhancing ‘support’ activities we derive the following results. First, an increase in the supply of skilled labor raises the employment share of non-production labor within firms, without lowering relative wages. Second, new technologies raise wage inequality only in so far as they give incentives to firms to reallocate skilled labor towards non-production activities. In contrast, skill-biased technological change of the sort usually considered in the literature does not affect wage inequality.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
- Department
- Département d'économie politique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Economics
- License
- Rights reserved
- Open access status
- green
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1111/j.1467-999X.2005.00206.x
- ISSN 0026-1386
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/323691
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