Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China

Belton Fleisher (), William H. McGuire (), Yaqin Su and Min Qiang (Kent) Zhao
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William H. McGuire: University of Washington Tacoma
Yaqin Su: Hunan University

No 11569, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in a number of papers on advanced economies and some work on the Chinese economy. While the Unskilled and Self-Employment jobs remain below median income, the redistribution of employment has not been associated with a commensurate polarization of labor income. We find no evidence of polarization of either employment or income at the upper end of the job-skill spectrum.

Keywords: wage growth; innovation; polarization; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D33 J24 J31 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2018-05
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