American Economic Review
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Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring
American Economic Review
vol. 104,
no. 8, August 2014
(pp. 2509–26)
Abstract
This paper documents the pervasiveness of job polarization in 16 Western European countries over the period 1993-2010. It then develops and estimates a framework to explain job polarization using routine-biased technological change and offshoring. This model can explain much of both total job polarization and the split into within-industry and between-industry components.Citation
Goos, Maarten, Alan Manning, and Anna Salomons. 2014. "Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring." American Economic Review, 104 (8): 2509–26. DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.8.2509Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- J21 Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- J23 Labor Demand
- J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- M55 Personnel Economics: Labor Contracting Devices
- O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes