De-routinization of jobs and polarization of earnings: Evidence from 35 countries
The job polarization hypothesis suggests a U-shaped pattern of employment growth along the earnings/skill distribution, which is driven by simultaneous growth in the employment of high-skill/high-earnings and low-skill/low-earnings occupations due to Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC) [Acemoglu and Autor, 2011]. An aspect of both high social and political relevance is the implications of job polarization and technological change for earnings distributions. In this paper, we put the RBTC trend into perspective by decomposing earnings growth into parts attributable to job polarization an... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
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Luxembourg: Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / D3 / J3 / J8 / job polarization / technological change / earnings and wage distribution / Luxembourg Income Study database / Economic Research Forum database |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27523324 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228347 |