TY  - BOOK
AU  - Quintero Holguín,José Miguel
TI  - Wage inequality, skills and mastering new technologies
T2  - Documentos CEDE
SN  - 1657-5334
U1  - 331.2 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Bogotá
PB  - Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE
KW  - Diferenciales salariales
KW  - Salarios
KW  - Efecto de las innovaciones tecnológicas
KW  - Competencias laborales
KW  - Aspectos tecnológicos
KW  - Modelos matemáticos
KW  - Innovaciones tecnológicas
KW  - Aspectos laborales
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 21-22)
N2  - In this paper I provide a new explanation for the increasing inequality between skilled and unskilled. This work introduces a problem solving based model in which agents invest in technological innovations to solve problems and sell their solutions in the market. Each agent has feasible set they can solve which depends on their skills and the set of technology they have access to. However, unlike the skilled biased technological change explanation, I do not assume that new technologies are necessarily complementary with skills. Instead, skills will play a role in how fast agents are able to adopt new technologies. High skilled individuals will adopt new technologies a lower cost relative to the unskilled. Under this frame, the model sets two different mechanisms that feed the wage gap between skilled and unskilled: productivity and access to the latest technological innovations
UR  - https://economia.uniandes.edu.co/components/com_booklibrary/ebooks/dcede2018-27.pdf
ER  -