• Title of article

    A model of power-biased technological change

  • Author/Authors

    Peter Skott، نويسنده , , Frederick Guy، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    124
  • To page
    131
  • 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
  • Keywords
    Power-biased technical change , Efficiency wage , Inequality , Work intensity , Skill bias
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2007
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    436199