SPILLOVERS FROM HIGH-SKILL CONSUMPTION TO LOW-SKILL LABOR MARKETS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mazzolari, Francesca; Ragusa, Giuseppe
• 署名单位: Luiss Guido Carli University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00234
• 发表日期: 2013-03
• 页码: 74-86
• 关键词: wage inequality; technological-change; technical change; UNITED-STATES; demand; polarization; allocation; regression; 1980S; work

摘要

The least-skilled workforce in the United States is disproportionally employed in the provision of time-intensive services that can be thought of as market substitutes for home production activities. At the same time, skilled workers, with their high opportunity cost of time, spend a larger fraction of their budget in these services. Given the skill asymmetry between consumers and providers in this market, product demand shifts-such as those arising when relative skilled wages increase-should boost relative labor demand for the least-skilled workforce. We estimate that this channel may explain one-third of the growth of employment of noncollege workers in low-skill services in the 1990s.