Skill-Biased Occupation Growth

Orhun Sevinc

Working Papers from Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

Abstract: This paper documents that employment and wage growth of occupations increase monotonically with measures of occupational skill intensity since 1980 in the US, contrary to the popular interpretation of labor market polarization. Skill-biased occupation growth is not driven by a specific gender, age group, decade, or occupation classification. A simple extension of routinization framework which allows for skill heterogeneities within occupations is capable of jointly explaining skill-biased occupation growth and polarization as well as their evolution over time.

Keywords: Occupations; Skills; Inequality; Technological change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J24 J31 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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