Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality
- 1 November 1998
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 113 (4) , 1055-1089
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355398555838
Abstract
A high proportion of skilled workers in the labor force implies a large market size for skill-complementary technologies, and encourages faster upgraKeywords
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