Collapsing wages and rising inequality: has computerization shifted the demand for skills?
In the 1980s, U.S. workers were hit by falling real wages, growing shares of low-wage jobs, sharply increasing earnings inequality, and declining job benefits and job security. Many economists say that these declines in economic well-being occurred because a parallel surge in the adoption of comput...
| Publicado en: | Challenge (05775132) Vol. 38; pp. 27 - 36 |
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M.E. Sharpe Inc.
January/February 1995
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