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Power, Productivity and Profits
Economics Department Working Paper Series
Working Paper Number
2007-02
Publication Date
2007
Abstract
New information and communication technologies, we argue, have been .power- biased.: in many industries they have allowed firms to monitor workers more closely, thus reducing the power of these workers. An efficiency wage model shows that .power- biased technical change’ in this sense may generate rising inequality accompanied by an increase in both unemployment and work intensity.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/1068974
Citation Information
Frederick Guy and Peter Skott. "Power, Productivity and Profits" (2007) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/peter_skott/4/