A Welfare Analysis of Policy Responses to the Skilled Wage Premium |
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Authors: | William Blankenau |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Economics, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, 800 West Main Street, Whitewater, Wisconsin, 53190, f1 |
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Abstract: | I build a model with heterogeneous agents which is consistent both with rising wage inequality across education levels and with an increasing relative number of college graduates. I use the model to investigate the welfare implications of policies which influence the structure of net wages. Each policy affects agents directly through taxes and subsides and indirectly as wages respond to changes in the relative supply of skilled and unskilled workers. I find that as wage inequality grows due to skill-biased technological change, policies which promote a more egalitarian wage structure can become increasingly acceptable to all agents and that for nearly all agents, education subsidies may be preferred to direct transfers as a means of decreasing wage inequality. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: E60, I28, H52. |
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Keywords: | wage inequality heterogeneity education subsidies welfare analysis |
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