Firm-Heterogeneous Biased Technological Change: A nonparametric approach under endogeneity

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 change’may generate rising wage inequality and increases in the work intensity and unemployment of low-skill workers. JEL numbers: J31, O33

Nonparametric Inference Under Biased Sampling from a Finite Population

Relative Wages, Openness and Skill- Biased Technological Change in Ghana

Standard neo-classical trade theory predicts that trade liberalisation should cause a fall in wage inequality in developing countries through a decrease in the relative demand for skilled labour. Recent studies of a number of developing countries, however, find evidence to the contrary. Using a panel of manufacturing firms in the 1990s we investigate whether skill-biased technological change in...

Implications of Skill-biased Technological Change: International Evidence Eli Berman

Demand for less-skilled workers plummeted in developed countries in the 1980s. In open economies, pervasive skill-biased technological change (SBTC) can explain this decline. SBTC tends to increase the domestic supply of unskillintensive goods by releasing less-skilled labor. The more countries experiencing a SBTC, the greater its potential to decrease the relative wages of less-skilled labor b...

Wage Inequality and Innovative Intelligence-Biased Technological Change

In this paper, “innovative intelligence–biased technological change” (IIBTC) is examined as an alternative to the traditional concept of skill-biased technological change (SBTC) as a source of increases in wage inequality. The innovative intelligence of ordinary or average workers is an important element in productivity and can be heterogeneous across workers. Because technologies are heterogen...