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... by policy makers in the late 1970s and in the 1980s that was directly tar- geted to stimulate commercial innovation and enhance the competitiveness of American …rms in the global ...innovation policy with ... See full document

... While the above argument demonstrates that the rise in the skill premium documented in the previous section could in principle be attributed to the trade reforms, it does not of course constitute proof that it was the ... See full document

... What are the reasons, explanations and in- fluencing factors for this trend? The ex- perts disagree. For example, the OECD pri- marily explains the income trend it identi- fied as a combination of technological ... See full document

... between wage inequality and trade liberalization in Colombia using detailed micro level data from ...WTO. Policy makers had accordingly less room to cater to special lobby interests; from an ... See full document

... the wage distribution. We identify three main channels through which the wage distribution was affected: increasing returns to college education, changes in industry wages that hurt sectors with initially ... See full document

... Since technological change does not seem to imply necessarily higher unemployment1, we turn our focus to a different question: is it possible to explain wage differentials among workers of the same quality ... See full document

... I perform variance decompositions to measure the contribution of the prominent expla- nations put forward to explain changes in the distribution of skill demands. First, I consider measures of task content to examine ... See full document

... latter, policy intervention aimed at achieving full employment has been progressively marginalised while austerity has growingly been regarded as a crucial mean to facilitate, via price stability, the ... See full document

... The interaction between entrepreneurial finance, organizational change, and technological progress has become an increasingly important component of the innovation and technology adoption process in the US in ... See full document

... the policy stimulates education of the type h poor too much, and as a result, lowers the average skill of the uneducated and thus their wages, and hampers wealth accumulation of the type l poor (see Figure 9 ... See full document

... minimum wage it must also be noted, though, that the proportion of employees in the 2000 sample below € ...minimum wage on its ...minimum wage is lower ...a policy innovation such as the ... See full document

... immigration policy should be con- cerned not only with the skills immigrants bring to their new country, but also with the levels of education attained by their children–the members of the second ... See full document

... on inequality, and investigate whether a higher human capital stock moderates this unequalising aspect of international trade; specifically the skilled-unskilled wage ...less inequality because the ... See full document

... skill-biased technological change (SBTC) is the main cause of the recent increase in wage inequality was widely accepted (Katz and Murphy, 1992; Autor et ... See full document

... a technological bias in the US and Europe, exploring such a subject in the developing countries is still relevant and very little ...the technological change skewed in the Tunisian ...a technological ... See full document

... investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions ...explores wage mobility for ...of wage inequality and wage ... See full document

... stratification system. Thus, it is a model of the allocation of individuals into an occupational structure, but the occupational structure is left unexplained and untheorized. By focusing only on the allocation of ... See full document

... The 1999 NES/ASHE recorded earnings for the pay period that included Wednesday April 14. In 2000, for the matched sample used here, 92% report earnings on the basis of a pay period of either one week or the calendar ... See full document

... Table 4 reports the estimation results in three scenarios under two measures of unemployment duration. Assuming no discrimination present in the labor market, the productivity of women is estimated to be 21% lower than ... See full document

... One other paper which directly looks at the impact of educational endowments on inequality in Mexico is Legovini et al (2005). This paper is distinct from the Legovini et al paper in two aspects: (1) our paper ... See full document