Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5062483 Economics Letters 2007 8 Pages PDF
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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A model of power-biased technological change
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