Metroeconomica
ARTICLE

SCALE‐INDEPENDENT TECHNOLOGICAL‐KNOWLEDGE BIAS, HUMAN‐CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND GENDER INEQUALITY

Oscar Afonso

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Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto, CEFUP, OBEGEF and NIFIP

The author would like to thank two anonymous Referees of this journal for their constructive suggestions on previous versions of this paper.

Oscar Afonso, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto, R. Roberto Frias, 4200‐464 Porto, Portugal, E‐mail:

oafonso@fep.up.pt

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First published: 25 July 2012
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ABSTRACT

We present a dynamic, non‐scale general‐equilibrium model with female and male human capital where Schumpeterian R&D and human‐capital accumulation are the engines of growth and gender wage inequality. Gender wage inequality is encouraged by changes in relative supply and relative demand of both human‐capital types. Relative supply restricts the levels of employed human capital. Relative demand is affected by the technological‐knowledge bias, which is driven by the price channel and is affected by human‐capital accumulation. In particular, the female‐premium per unit of human capital and per worker increases when the observed discrimination against women decreases or is removed.

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