Precautionary Demand for Education, Inequality, and Technological Progress
Preprint
- 1 January 2000
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
- Vol. 6 (4) , 285-315
- https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.246611
Abstract
Individuals choose to invest in general skills through education or technology-specific skills by working on the job. Technological progress, which occurs randoKeywords
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