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Lousy and Lovely Jobs: The Rising Polarization of Work in Britain

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Goos, Maarten, Manning, Alan·2007·Review of Economics and Statistics
DOI 10.1162/rest.89.1.118
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This paper shows that the United Kingdom since 1975 has exhibited a pattern of job polarization with rises in employment shares in the highest- and lowest-wage occupations. This is not entirely consistent with the idea of skill-biased technical change as a hypothesis about the impact of technology on the labor market. We argue that the “routinization” hypothesis recently proposed by Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003) is a better explanation of job polarization, though other factors may also be important. We show that job polarization can explain one-third of the rise in the log(50/10) wage differential and one-half of the rise in the log(90/50).

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Authors
Goos, M., & Manning, A.
Venue
Review of Economics and Statistics
Publisher
MIT Press - Journals
Published
2007-02
Volume
89
Issue
1
Pages
118-133
ISSN
  • 0034-6535 (ISSN-L)
  • 1530-9142
DOI
10.1162/rest.89.1.118
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3
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144.04
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journal article
Language
en
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