Income inequality and technological adoption

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Autor(a) principal: Santos, M.
Data de Publicação: 2017
Outros Autores: Sequeira, T. N., Ferreira-Lopes, A.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/26512
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.
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title Income inequality and technological adoption
spellingShingle Income inequality and technological adoption
Santos, M.
Income inequality
Technological adoption
title_short Income inequality and technological adoption
title_full Income inequality and technological adoption
title_fullStr Income inequality and technological adoption
title_full_unstemmed Income inequality and technological adoption
title_sort Income inequality and technological adoption
author Santos, M.
author_facet Santos, M.
Sequeira, T. N.
Ferreira-Lopes, A.
author_role author
author2 Sequeira, T. N.
Ferreira-Lopes, A.
author2_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Santos, M.
Sequeira, T. N.
Ferreira-Lopes, A.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Income inequality
Technological adoption
topic Income inequality
Technological adoption
description 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.
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