The polarization of job opportunities in the U.S. labor market: implications for employment and earnings

David Autor

Community Investments, 2011, vol. 23, issue Fall, 11-1640-41

Abstract: An in-depth analysis of the state of the U.S. labor market over the past three decades reveals that the U.S. labor market is polarizing into low- and high-skill jobs, with fewer opportunities in the middle.

Keywords: Labor; market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/wp-con ... Inequality_Autor.pdf Full Text (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fip:fedfci:y:2011:i:fall:p:11-1640-41:n:v.23,no.2

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Community Investments from Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Research Library ().