Lousy and lovely jobs: The rising polarization of work in Britain

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan
• 署名单位: Universite Catholique Louvain; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest.89.1.118
• 发表日期: 2007-02
• 页码: 118-133
• 关键词: UNITED-STATES; wage inequality; skill; GROWTH; LABOR; demand; TECHNOLOGY; EMPLOYMENT; returns; QUALITY

摘要

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).