Technological Change and Wages: An Interindustry Analysis

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...

1 The Impact of Technological Change on Work and Wages

I. The Issues How technology affects work and pay has been an important topic in the study of labor markets and wage distribution. In this review article, we provide an overview of recent research in two particular areas: how technological change has affected wage and employment structures nationally, and how technological change has affected work at the establishment or plant level. With a few...

Technological Change and Technological Strategy

Lifetime learning , biased technological change and the evolution of wages in the U . S . 1960 - 1990

Stylized facts derived from wage pattern analysis in the U.S. point to the importance of non-standard explanations for changes of relative wage. Learning while working is predicted to be able to account for wage divergence so far unexplained. Increases in productivity differ among individuals due to heterogeneity in learning capabilities which excludes a group of workers from training. This sel...

Technological Change and Wages in China: Evidence From Matched Employer-Employee Data

We examine the relationship between research and development (R&D) intensity and wages, using a unique matched employer-employee dataset. The dataset has the advantage that it links firm-level investment in R&D to individual employee wages and allows us to control for both employee and employer characteristics. Our main finding is that a one standard deviation increase in R&D intensity is assoc...