Skill-biased technological change: Is there hope for the unskilled?

Economics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 439-441

  Weiss, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Factor substitution; Skill biased technological change; Wage inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349114713     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.03.022     Document Type: Article

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