Title Innovation and inequality : how does technical progress affect workers? / Gilles Saint-Paul.

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2008]
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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 190 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190).
Summary	Karl Marx predicted a world in which technical innovation would increasingly devalue and impoverish workers, but other economists thought the opposite, that it would lead to increased wages and living standards--and the economists were right. Yet in the last three decades, the market economy has been jeopardized by a worrying phenomenon: a rise in wage inequality that has left a substantial portion of the workforce worse off despite the continuing productivity growth enjoyed by the economy. Innovation and Inequality examines why. Studies have firmly established a link between this worrying tre.
Contents	Introduction -- 1 Which Tools Do We Need? -- 2 Productivity and Wages in Neoclassical Growth Models -- 3 Heterogeneous Labor -- 4 Competing Technologies -- 5 Supply Effects -- 6 Labor as a Quality Input: Skill Aggregation and Sectoral Segregation -- 7 The Economics of Superstars -- 8 Complementarities and Segregation by Skills -- 9 Demand Effects -- 10 Nonhomothetic Preferences and the Distributive Effects of Innovation and Intellectual Property -- Epilogue -- References.
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Subject	Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on.
	Labor supply -- Effect of technological innovations on.
	Technological innovations.
	Income distribution.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
	Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on. (OCoLC)fst00909145
	Income distribution. (OCoLC)fst00968670
	Labor supply -- Effect of technological innovations on. (OCoLC)fst00990189
	Technological innovations. (OCoLC)fst01145002
	Vernieuwing.
	Vervreemding.
	Welvaartseconomie.
	Ongelijkheid.
Genre/Form	Electronic book.
Added Title	Innovation & inequality
	How does technical progress affect workers
Other Form:	Print version: Saint-Paul, Gilles. Innovation and inequality. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008 9780691128306 0691128308 (DLC) 2008921816 (OCoLC)181142090
ISBN	9781400824779 (electronic book)
	140082477X (electronic book)
	1282129619
	9781282129610
	9780691128306
	0691128308

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