Goos, Maarten and Manning, Alan ORCID: 0000-0002-7884-3580
(2003)
Lousy and lovely jobs: the rising polarization of work in Britain.
CEPDP (604).
London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK.
ISBN 0753016826
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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.
Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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Official URL: | http://cep.lse.ac.uk |
Additional Information: | © 2003 the authors |
Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance Economics |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
JEL classification: | J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination and Creation; Human Capital; Retirement > J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2008 09:56 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 11:29 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/20002 |
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