Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20259 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1024
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper argues that endogenous restructuring processes within firms towards productivityenhancing human resource activities, triggered by advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) and rising supply of educated workers, are typically associated with higher demand for noncognitive abilities. Consistent with the evolution of the distribution of wages in advanced countries, this raises within-group wage inequality, possibly accompanied by a decline or stagnation of between-group wage dispersion. The mechanisms proposed in this research are consistent with empirical evidence on both the evolution of work-force composition in firms and the complementarity between skillupgrading, new technologies and knowledge-based work organization.
Subjects: 
human resource activities
noncognitive abilities
within-group wage inequality
JEL: 
J31
D20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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