wage-gap; Covid; contact-intensive; general equilibrium
Issue Date
2021-09
Publisher
Ifo Institute for Economic Research
Citation
CESifo Working Paper No. 9311, Page. 1-9
Abstract
In a general equilibrium model with online, entertainment and informal sectors employing skill,
unskilled, and capital, we show that Covid-19 could cause polarization pushing contact-intensive
entertainment industry on the brink of collapse while other two survive. Dual roles of factorintensity and contact-intensity contribute to such finite changes, triggering inter-skill wage
inequality.