Capital-skill complementarity and inequality: A macroeconomic analysis

Econometrica

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1029-1053

  Krusell, Per ^a   Ohanian, Lee E ^b,e   Ríos Rull, José Víctor ^c   Violante, Giovanni L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital skill complementarity; Technological change; Wage inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644330595     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0262.00150     Document Type: Article

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