Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan; Salomons, Anna
• 署名单位: KU Leuven; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Utrecht University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.8.2509
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 2509-2526
• 关键词: demand; tasks; INEQUALITY; GROWTH; skills; work

摘要

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.