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T1 The Spanish technical change : a regional and a dynamic analysis (1994-2007)
A1 Alfaro Moreno, Ana Karina
A1 Núñez Velázquez, José Javier
K1 Technological frontiers
K1 Technological differences
K1 Technical change
K1 Skills
K1 J24
K1 O14
K1 O33
K1 Ciencias económicas
K1 Estadística
K1 Economics
K1 Statistics
AB Studying wage dispersion, many researchers have found that the skill premium (the ratio of skilled workers¿ wages to unskilled ones) has increased after 1979 in many developed countries, when there was a very sharp increase in the supply of skilled workers. The recent consensus is that technical change favours skilled workers, replacing tasks previously performed by the unskilled and exacerbating inequality. In the Spanish case, Nuñez and Alfaro (2009) have found evidences of a decline in the wage premium during the nineties. So, in this paper, we distinguish between skilled and unskilled workers differentiating the efficiency units of both types of workers. Moreover, we calculate the Spanish technology frontier and the technology differences between the Spanish Regions in 2006 and we analyze the evolution of the Spanish technology frontier over 1994-2007, testing the kind of technical change. In addition, a coherent Spanish wage micro-data base is achieved, using data from Eurostat: ECHP and EU-SILC.
PB Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Estadística, Estructura Económica y Organización Económica Internacional
YR 2010
FD 2010-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/7237
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/7237
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 29-abr-2024