Job Polarization and Rising Inequality in the Nation and the New York-Northern New Jersey Region
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Structural changes in labor markets tend to persist longer than unemployment rates, which vary with economic cycles.
“Since structural changes in labor markets are more likely to be sustained over time, in contrast to unemployment rates which fluctuate with economic cycles”
From Beyond the Great Recession: Labor Market Polarization and Ongoing Fertility Decline in the United States (2019) · cites this paper as Abel and Deitz 2012
The Polarization of Employment (p. 3) says routine middle-skill jobs are lost largely during recessions and that employment in those jobs never recovers, supporting the persistence of a specific labor-market change. The paper does not discuss unemployment rates fluctuating with economic cycles or directly compare their duration with structural changes. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredManufacturing and other goods-producing jobs rarely come back after recessions.
“Importantly, once manufacturing and other goods-producing jobs disappear, they rarely return during post-recessional recovery periods (Abel and Deitz 2012).”
From Beyond the Great Recession: Labor Market Polarization and Ongoing Fertility Decline in the United States (2019) · cites this paper as Abel and Deitz 2012
The Polarization of Employment (p. 3) says routine middle-skill jobs are lost almost exclusively during recessions and their employment levels never recover. The Economic Forces behind Job Polarization (p. 2) identifies manufacturing as especially exposed and says goods-producing jobs are disproportionately middle-skill, but it does not extend the recovery finding to all manufacturing and other goods-producing jobs. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe goods-producing sector contains a disproportionate share of middle-skill, middle-income jobs, making it an appropriate measure of local labor market polarization.
“Past research on labor market polarization has established that the goods-producing business sector contains a disproportionate share of middle-skill, middle-income jobs and therefore represents an appropriate measure of local labor market polarization (Abel and Deitz 2012).”
From Beyond the Great Recession: Labor Market Polarization and Ongoing Fertility Decline in the United States (2019) · cites this paper as Abel and Deitz 2012
The Economic Forces behind Job Polarization (p. 2) says the goods-producing sector employs a disproportionate share of middle-skill workers. But for its regional analysis, Job Polarization in New York and Northern New Jersey (p. 5) measures changes in employment across four skill groups; it does not establish the goods-producing sector as an appropriate measure of local polarization. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Past research on labor market polarization has established that the goodsproducing business sector contains a disproportionate share of middle-skill, middle-income jobs and therefore represents an appropriate measure of local labor market polarization (Abel and Deitz 2012).”
- Authors
- Abel, J. R., & Deitz, R.
- Affiliations
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York (US)
- Corresponding author
- Abel, Jaison R.
- Venue
- SSRN Electronic Journal
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012
- Volume
- 18
- ISSN
- 1556-5068 (ISSN-L)
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- W3124991982
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- 22
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- 2
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- en
- Open access
- green
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- SSRN Electronic Journal (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Current issues in economics and finance (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economic Theory and Policy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Keywords
- job polarization, wage inequality, middle-skill jobs, high-skilled jobs, low-skilled jobs, technological change, globalization, routine tasks, regional wage differentials, northern New Jersey
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