Optimal Technology, Development and the role of Government

Hernan Moscoso Boedo

Virginia Economics Online Papers from University of Virginia, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper highlights the effect of the presence of the goverment and its redistribution policy in the technology adoption decision. As a result it helps explain the differences in skill premium patterns across the North Atlantic between developed economies such as the US and Continental Europe.

Keywords: Taxes, skill biased technological change; skill premium; endogenous technology; inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E25 J24 O23 O33 O40 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2006-05
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