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Of course, technological change need not always be "biased" toward more highly educated workers (Goldin and Katz, 1995) , and examples can certainly be found of computers leading to lower rather than higher skill requirements for workers.
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Finally, the falling wages of less educated workers in the United States reflect 120n the other hand, Freeman (1995b) notes that if employment and unemployment rates in the United States for the least educated males are adjusted so that those incarcerated are included among the nonemployed, U.S.
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(For a very readable summary of trends and the historical perspective on this question, see Madrick, 1995.) Despite these questions and caveats, the evidence strongly suggests that a rise in the demand for educated workers relative to their supply has widened the gaps in relative earnings and employment rates between more and less educated workers, consistent with a "skills gap." Test Scores The fact that earnings inequality has risen even within educational categories raises the question of whether employer demand for skills measured along other dimensions has risen as well (e.g., Juhn et al., 1993~.
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