Lousy and lovely jobs: the rising polarization of work in Britain

Maarten Goos and Alan Manning

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Abstract: This paper argues that skill-biased technical change has some deficiencies as a hypothesis about the impact of technology on the labor market and that a more nuanced view recently proposed by Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003) is a more accurate description. The difference between the two hypotheses is in the prediction about what is happening to employment in low-wage jobs. This paper presents evidence that employment in the UK is polarizing into lovely and lousy jobs and that a plausible explanation for this is the Autor, Levy and Murnane hypothesis.

Keywords: Labor Demand and Technology; Inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 60 pages
Date: 2003-12
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