全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Wages, Skills, and Technology in the United States and Canada

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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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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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