Technology and the wage structure:

This paper reports direct evidence on how recent changes in technology are related to changes in wage differentials by schooling, experience, and gender. Wage differentials by industry in the full- year 1979 and 1989 Current Population Surveys are related to R&D intensity, usage of high-tech cap...

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Beteilige Person: Allen, Steven G. 1952- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. 1996
Schriftenreihe:National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series 5534
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Links:http://elibrary.worldbank.org/content/workingpaper/10.1596/1813-9450-2685
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w5534.pdf
Zusammenfassung:This paper reports direct evidence on how recent changes in technology are related to changes in wage differentials by schooling, experience, and gender. Wage differentials by industry in the full- year 1979 and 1989 Current Population Surveys are related to R&D intensity, usage of high-tech capital, recentness of technology, growth in total factor productivity, and growth of the capital-labor ratio. Returns to schooling are larger in industries that are intensive in R&D and high-tech capital. Technology variables account for 30 percent of the increase in the wage gap between college and high school graduates.
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