Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring

Maarten Goos, Alan Manning and Anna Salomons

American Economic Review, 2014, vol. 104, issue 8, 2509-26

Abstract: 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.

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Date: 2014
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.8.2509
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