Wage inequality, skills, and technology

Browse a collection of EPI material dealing with the intersection of skills, technology, and wage inequality in the U.S. economy.

Seven Reasons for Skepticism about the Technology Story of U.S. Wage Inequality
Jared Bernstein and Lawrence Mishel
From Sourcebook of Labor Markets: Evolving Structures and Processes, edited by Ivar Berg and Arne L. Kalleberg.
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, 2001.

Technology and the Wage Structure: Has Technology’s Impact Accelerated Since the 1970s?
Lawrence Mishel and Jared Bernstein
from Research in Labor Economics, Volume 17, pages 305-355.
JAI Press Inc., 1998.

Did Technology Have Any Effect on the Growth of Wage Inequality in the 1980s and 1990s?
Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and John Schmitt
Preliminary Draft (Working Paper), April, 1997 (revised December, 1997)
Economic Policy Institute, 1997.

Excerpts from The State of Working America 1996-1997
Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and John Schmitt
(pp. 160-167, 214-227)
M.E. Sharpe (Economic Policy Institute Series), 1997.