Technological Acceleration, Skill Transferability, and the Rise in Residual Inequality
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 117 (1) , 297-338
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355302753399517
Abstract
This paper provides a quantitative theory for the recent rise in residual wage inequality consistent with the empirical observation that a sizable paKeywords
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