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Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China

Belton Fleisher (), William McGuire, Yaqin Su and Min Qiang (Kent) Zhao

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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: polarization; innovation; wage growth; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-05-31
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