Investment-specific technological change, skill accumulation, and wage inequality

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 314-334

  He, Hui ^a   Liu, Zheng ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CIRPÉE ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Capital skill complementarity; Investment specific technological change; Skill accumulation; Skill premium

Indexed keywords

EID: 40349106456     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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