• Title of article

    A general purpose technology explains the Solow paradox and wage inequality

  • Author/Authors

    Bas Jacobs، نويسنده , , Richard Nahuis، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2002
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    243
  • To page
    250
  • Abstract
    We analyze the consequences of a general purpose technology (GPT) on output, productivity, and wages of skilled and unskilled workers. Our endogenous growth model matches three key empirical facts during the 1980s and 1990s: an increasing skill premium, a fall in the real wages of unskilled workers and a slowing down of economic growth after the introduction of a GPT.
  • Keywords
    GPT , Wage inequality , Economic growth
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2002
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    434869