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

by Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan (2007)

Abstract

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 …

Keywords

Lousy Jobs, Job Polarization, Employment, Machines, Automation, Labour Markets

Themes

Employment, Automation

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• https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article/89/1/118-133/57634
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/rest.89.1.118
• https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/89/1/118/57634
• https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/rest.89.1.118

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