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Technological Change, Economic Growth, And Income Inequality : Msa Evidence From The 1990s., Thomas Eric Lehman 1967-

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Employing a two-stage least-squares multiple regression technique using cross-sectional data from metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) as the unit of analysis, this study is designed to detect the indirect effect of skill-biased technological change (SBTC) on household income inequality through changes in the rate of per capita economic growth over the decade of the 1990s. If recent technological changes are skill-biased and tend to raise inequality, as much previous research has suggested, and if such technological changes are a relatively large determinant of economic growth, then we should be able to observe a positive association between technology-driven economic growth and income …