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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w6638 |
来源ID | Working Paper 6638 |
Wages, Skills, and Technology in the United States and Canada | |
Kevin M. Murphy; W. Craig Riddell; Paul M. Romer | |
发表日期 | 1998-07-01 |
出版年 | 1998 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Wages for more- and less-educated workers have followed strikingly different paths in the U.S. and Canada. During the 1980's and 1990's, the ratio of earnings of university graduates to high school graduates increased sharply in the U.S. but fell slightly in Canada. Katz and Murphy (1992) found that for the U.S. a simple supply-demand model fit the pattern of variation in the premium over time. We find that the same model and parameter estimates explain the variation between the U.S. and Canada. In both instances, the relative demand for more-educated labor shifts out at the same, consistent rate. Both over time and between countries, the variation in rate of growth of relative wages can be explained by variation in the relative supply of more-educated workers. Many economists suspect that technological change is causing the steady increases in the relative demand for more-educated labor. If so, these data provide independent evidence on the spatial and temporal variation in the pattern of technological change. Whatever is causing this increased demand for skill, the evidence from Canada suggest that increases in educational attainment and skills can reduce the rate at which relative wages diverge. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w6638 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/564150 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kevin M. Murphy,W. Craig Riddell,Paul M. Romer. Wages, Skills, and Technology in the United States and Canada. 1998. |
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