Putting the Bias in Skill-Biased Technological Change? A Relational Perspective on White-Collar Automation at General Electric

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 400-415

  Hanley, Caroline ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

relational inequality; skill; white collar

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893247964     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764213503339     Document Type: Article

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