Human-capital investment and the wage gap

Jürgen Meckl () and Stefan Zink

No 307, Discussion Papers, Series I from University of Konstanz, Department of Economics

Abstract: According to empirical studies, the relation between the relative wage of skilled workers and their relative supply is U-shaped. This finding is explained by the effect of technological change on the incentives for humancapital investments made by heterogeneous individuals.

Keywords: Wage inequality; human-capital investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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