Unraveling the skill premium

Peter McAdam () and Alpo Willman

No 1800, Working Paper Series from European Central Bank

Abstract: For the US the supply and wages of skilled labor relative to those of unskilled labor have grown over the postwar period. The literature has tended to explain this through JEL Classification: J01, J31, O4

Keywords: Capital-Skill Complementarity; Factor- Augmenting Technical Progress; Factor Substitution; inequality; Multi-level CES production function; Projections; Skill Premium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06
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Related works:
Journal Article: UNRAVELING THE SKILL PREMIUM (2018)
Working Paper: Unraveling the Skill Premium (2017)
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