Arbeitspapier
Power-Biased Technological Change and the Rise in Earnings Inequality
New information and communication technologies, we argue, have been 'power-biased': they have allowed firms to monitor low-skill workers more closely, thus reducing the power of these workers. An efficiency wage model shows that 'power-biased technical change' in this sense may generate rising wage inequality accompanied by an increase in both the effort and unemployment of low-skill workers. The skill-biased technological change hypothesis, on the other hand, offers no explanation for the observed increase in effort. JEL Categories: J31, O33
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2005-17
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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power-biased technical change
skill bias
efficiency wages
wage inequality
work intensity
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Skott, Peter
Guy, Frederick
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics
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Amherst, MA
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2005
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Skott, Peter
- Guy, Frederick
- University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2005
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