Is inequality an inevitable by-product of skill-biased technical change?

Philipp Hühne and Dierk Herzer

Applied Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 24, issue 18, 1346-1350

Abstract: This article examines trends in relative wages between high- and medium-skilled workers and between medium- and low-skilled workers in Finland, Germany, Italy, South Korea and the US over the period 1970–2005. It is found that there are large differences in the evolution wage inequality across the countries in our sample, with some countries showing a long-run upward trend in relative wages (such as the US, Germany and Italy) and others showing a long-run downward trend (such as Finland and Korea). The main conclusion from our results is that inequality is not an inevitable by-product of technological change.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1279259

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