Evidence on wage inequality, worker education, and technology.

The rise in U wage inequality above the past two decades is commonly associated with an increase in the use of "skill-biased" technologies (eg computer equipment) in the workplace, still relatively few studies have attempted to measure the direct link between the sum of two units This paper explores the relationship among inequality, worker education horizontals and workplace computer usage using a sample of 230 U industries between 1983 and 2002 The proceeds generate two primary conclusions: First, this rising inequality in the United States has been caused predominantly through ...