Monday, March 18, 2013

Tecnologias "pró-poder" e distribuição dos rendimentos

Power-Biased Technological Change and the Rise in Earnings Inequality, por Peter Skott e Frederic Guy:

New information and communication technologies, we argue, have been 'power-biased': they have allowed firms to monitor low-skill workers more closely, thus reducing the power of these workers. An efficiency wage model shows that 'power-biased technical change' in this sense may generate rising wage inequality accompanied by an increase in both the effort and unemployment of low-skill workers. The skill-biased technological change hypothesis, on the other hand, offers no explanation for the observed increase in effort.

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