Title Information
Title
Ability-biased technological transition, wage inequality, and economic growth
Name: Personal
Name Part
Galor, Oded
Name Part: Date
1953-
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
creator
Name: Personal
Name Part
Moav, Omer
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
creator
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
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Title Information
Title
Quarterly journal of economics
Part Number
Vol. 115, no. 2
Origin Information
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Date Issued
May 2000
Date Issued (keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
2000-05
Physical Description
Extent
pp. 469-497
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Income distribution
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Labor supply
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Education
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Economic development
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Economics
Abstract
This paper develops a growth model characterized by ability-biased technological transition in which the evolution of technology, education attainment, and wage inequality is consistent with the observed pattern in the United States and other advanced countries over the past several decades. It argues that an increase in the rate of technological progress raises the return to ability and simultaneously generates an increase in wage inequality between and within groups of skilled and unskilled workers, an increase in average wages of skilled workers, a temporary decline in average wages of unskilled workers, an increase in education, and a productivity transitory slowdown.
Identifier: DOI
10.1162/003355300554827
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