Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring
Объяснение поляризации занятости: технологические изменения, ориентированные на выполнение рутинных задач, и офшоринг
2014-08-01
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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. (JEL J21, J23, J24, M55, O33)
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Job polarization occurred pervasively across 16 Western European countries between 1993 and 2010.
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The model accounts for much of overall job polarization and explains substantial portions of both within-industry and between-industry polarization.
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The paper develops and estimates a framework explaining job polarization through routine-biased technological change and offshoring.
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Job polarization in 16 Western European countries from 1993 to 2010
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The effects of routine-biased technological change and offshoring on total, within-industry, and between-industry job polarization
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