Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5062483 | Economics Letters | 2007 | 8 Pages |
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.
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Authors
Peter Skott, Frederick Guy,