Document Type
Article
Abstract
The late 1970s and early 1980s was a time of rising wage inequality in the United States, particularly between skilled and unskilled workers. During this time, there was also a dramatic increase in on-the-job computer use. Many economists blamed the increase in computer use for the increase in wage inequality in the United States. That view became known as the skill-biased technological change hypothesis. But there are problems with the hypothesis in nearly every dimension of wage inequality in the U.S. labor market. A better explanation for the increase in wage inequality is the globalization of the U.S. economy.
Publication Date
Spring 2005
Journal Title
Major Themes in Economics
Volume
7
Issue
1
First Page
75
Last Page
88
Copyright
©2005 by Major Themes in Economics
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Kerkvliet, Jana
(2005)
"The Impact of Computers and Globalization on U.S. Wage Inequality,"
Major Themes in Economics, 7, 75-88.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/mtie/vol7/iss1/7