A model of power-biased technological change
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A Model of Power-Biased Technological Change
New technologies have allowed rms to monitor low-skill workers more closely, thus reducing the power of these workers. We show that this power-biased changemay generate rising wage inequality and increases in the work intensity and unemployment of low-skill workers. JEL numbers: J31, O33
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عنوان ژورنال: Economics Letters
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0165-1765
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.09.023