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Autoria: | Santos, M. Sequeira, T. N. Ferreira-Lopes, A. |
Data: | 2017 |
Título próprio: | Income inequality and technological adoption |
Título da revista: | Journal of Economic Issues |
Volume: | 51 |
Número: | 4 |
Paginação: | 979 - 1000 |
Referência bibliográfica: | Santos, M., Sequeira, T. N., & Ferreira-Lopes, A. (2017). Income inequality and technological adoption. Journal of Economic Issues, 51(4), 979-1000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2017.1391582 |
ISSN: | 0021-3624 |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.1080/00213624.2017.1391582 |
Palavras-chave: | Income inequality Technological adoption |
Resumo: | We relate technological adoption (of different technologies) with income inequality. In the process, we discover that some technologies, such as aviation, cell phones, electric production, internet, telephone, and TV, are skill-complementary in raising inequality. We construct standardized indexes of skill-complementary technological adoption for modern information and communication technologies (ICT), older ICT, production and transport technologies. We find strong evidence that older ICT and transport technologies (and less frequently modern ICT) tend to increase inequality. Additionally, we discover that results are much stronger in rich countries than in poor ones. Our results are quite robust to a series of changes in specifications, estimators, samples, and measurement of technology adoption. These results may bring insights into the design of incentive schemes for technology adoption. |
Arbitragem científica: | yes |
Acesso: | Acesso Aberto |
Aparece nas coleções: | BRU-RI - Artigos em revistas científicas internacionais com arbitragem científica |
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