Explaining job polarization: routine-biased technological change and offshoring

Maarten Goos, Alan Manning and Anna Salomons

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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.

JEL-codes: J21 J23 J24 M55 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-08
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Published in American Economic Review, August, 2014, 104(8), pp. 2509-2526. ISSN: 0002-8282

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