Skott, P. and Guy, Frederick (2007) A model of power-biased technological change. Economics Letters 95 (1), pp. 124-131. ISSN 0165-1765.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2006.09.023
Abstract
New technologies have allowed firms 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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Power-biased technical change, Skill bias, Efficiency wage, Inequality, Work intensity |
| School or Research Centre: | Birkbeck Schools and Research Centres > School of Business, Economics & Informatics > Management |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2013 12:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/488 |
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