Learning-by-doing, technology-adoption costs and wage inequality

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2010

Autores

Óscar Afonso (Autor) FEP; Rui Manuel Lousada Leite (Autor) FEP

Revista

Título: Economic Modelling

Vol. 27 Nº 5

Páginas: 1069-1078

ISSN: 0264-9993

Editora: Elsevier

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 7 Citações

ISI Web of Science

Scopus - 8 Citações

Econlit

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências sociais > Economia e gestão

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-003-37T

DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2010.04.002

Abstract (EN): In the dominant literature, the technological-knowledge bias that drives wage inequality is determined by the market-size channel. We develop an endogenous growth model with two technologies in which: a specific quality of labour, low or high-skilled, is combined with a specific set of quality-adjusted intermediate goods; the market-size channel is practically removed; adoption costs and learning-by-doing are linked with labour endowments. By solving transitional dynamics numerically, we show that changes in the supply of labour affect learning-by-doing and technology-adoption costs, which, in turn, influence the technological-knowledge bias and thus wage inequality. The proposed mechanisms can accommodate facts not explained by the previous literature.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 10