Explaining rising inequality: Skill‐biased technical change and north–south trade

N Chusseau, M Dumont, J Hellier - Journal of Economic …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We review the 'skill‐biased technological change (SBTC) versus North–South trade
(NST)'debate in order to explain widening wage inequality between skilled and unskilled …

The skill bias effect of technological and organisational change: Evidence and policy implications

M Piva, E Santarelli, M Vivarelli - Research Policy, 2005 - Elsevier
Previous studies have suggested that technological change is the main cause of the recent
increase in demand for highly skilled workers in developed countries. However, a more …

Financing constraints, firm dynamics, export decisions, and aggregate productivity

A Caggese, V Cuñat - Review of Economic Dynamics, 2013 - Elsevier
We present a dynamic model in which firms accumulate wealth to avoid bankruptcy and to
overcome financing constraints that affect their fixed operational costs and the costs of …

Financing constraints, radical versus incremental innovation, and aggregate productivity

A Caggese - American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2019 - aeaweb.org
I provide new empirical evidence on the negative relationship between financial frictions
and productivity growth over a firm's life cycle. I show that a model of firm dynamics with …

Employee education, information and communication technologies, workplace organization, and trade: a comparative analysis of Greek and Swiss firms

S Arvanitis, E Loukis - Industrial and corporate change, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We investigated the effect of modern information and communication technologies (ICT),
new forms of workplace organization, and trade (export) activities on the demand for …

The informal recruitment channel and the quality of job-worker matches: an analysis on Italian survey data

V Meliciani, D Radicchia - Industrial and corporate change, 2011 - academic.oup.com
This article analyzes the consequences of being recruited through the informal channel in
the Italian labor market using data collected through a new survey implemented by Institute …

Skills, technology and organisational innovation in Spanish firms

A Bayo‐Moriones, M Billón… - International Journal of …, 2008 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this research is to provide empirical evidence on the relationships
among new technologies, innovative work practices and upskilling in the Spanish case …

Trade, services, and wage inequality

P Askenazy - Oxford Economic Papers, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We develop a simple endogenous growth model with two countries, North that innovates,
and South. As in Dinopoulos and Segerstrom (1999), trade liberalization raises wage …

Labour demand and the distribution of wages in South African manufacturing exporters

M Matthee, N Rankin, C Bezuidenhout - 2017 - econstor.eu
This paper contributes to the understanding of the linkages between exporting, labour
demand, and wages in South Africa. We disentangle labour market differences between …

[BOOK][B] Offshoring and the skill composition of employment in the Italian manufacturing industries

AM Falzoni, L Tajoli - 2008 - academia.edu
In this paper, we assess the extent of offshoring in the Italian manufacturing industries, and
we study how this phenomenon is affecting the skill composition of employment. Measuring …