Macro Economics Essays on Technological Change

The essay consists of three chapters. In chapter 1, I find that wages in U.S. regions have been diverging instead of converging from 1975 onward. This coincides with the period of accelerating skill-biased technological change. A decomposition of the divergence rate indicates three channels underlyi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Qian, Tiefeng
Other Authors: Economics, Science
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/48965