The impact of government on wage inequality without scale effects

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2008

Authors

Óscar Afonso (Author) FEP

Journal

Title: Economic Modelling

Pages: 351-362

ISSN: 0264-9993

Publisher: Elsevier

Indexing

ISI Web of Science

Scopus

Econlit

Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences > Economics and Business

Other information

DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2007.06.005

Resumo (PT): The market-size channel is the standard explanation for the technological-knowledge bias, which induces skill-biased wage inequality. In line with the dominant literature on scale effects, we remove the scale effects and we show that the skill-biased wage inequality is also caused by the technological-knowledge bias, which is, however, encouraged by (the structure of) government intervention through the price channel.

Abstract (EN): The market-size channel is the standard explanation for the technological-knowledge bias, which induces skill-biased wage inequality. In line with the dominant literature on scale effects, we remove the scale effects and we show that the skill-biased wage inequality is also caused by the technological-knowledge bias, which is, however, encouraged by (the structure of) government intervention through the price channel.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264999307000879