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Explaining Job Polarization in Europe: The Roles of Technology, Globalization and Institutions
Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan; Salomons, Anna - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
This paper shows the employment structure of 16 European countries has been polarizing in recent years with the employment shares of managers, professionals and low-paid personal services workers increasing at the expense of the employment shares of middling manufacturing and routine office...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643554
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The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Informality and Wages: Evidence from Mexico
Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with firm heterogeneity, it is predicted that import tariff elimination could reduce the incidence of informality by making more profitable to some firms to enter the formal sector,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151025
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Has job polarisation squeezed the American middle class?
Boehm, Michael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
study examines whether the decline in manufacturing and clerical jobs has been responsible for the lagging wages of middle-skill … shows that labour market returns to middle-skill jobs have declined relative to high- and low-skill jobs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721427
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Has Job Polarization Squeezed the Middle Class? Evidence from the Allocation of Talents
Boehm, Michael J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
of employment in middle-skill production and clerical occupations - so-called job polarization. I study whether job … occupation-specific skill prices. In line with polarization, I find that a one percentage point higher propensity to enter high …- (low-) as opposed to middle-skill occupations is associated with a .29 (.70) percent increase in expected wages over time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652266
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Private Sector Employment Growth, 1998-2004: A Panel Analysis of British Workplaces
Bryson, Alex; Nurmi, Satu - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
Using nationally representative panel data for British private sector workplaces this paper points to the importance of distinguishing between workplace and firm size when analysing employment growth, and finds that the factors associated with growth differ markedly between single independent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151026
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Sinking the Blues: the Impact of Shop Closing Hours on Labor and Product Markets
Goos, Maarten - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
There is a growing consensus among economists that extending shop opening hours createsjobs. While this is probably true in deregulating industries, this paper argues there are somedeficiencies in the existing hypotheses about how exactly deregulation affects employment.First, this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016664
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The Effect of Trade on the Demand for Skill - Evidence from the Interstate Highway System
Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797169
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Rise of the Machines: The Effects of Labor-Saving Innovations on Jobs and Wages
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate, and what types of worker will be replaced as a result? We present a model that distinguishes between a task's engineering complexity and its training requirements. When two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166117
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Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics
Yashiv, Eran - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment determined as equilibrium phenomena? What...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510441
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Labor Market Institutions, Wages and Investment
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investmentdecisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wageinequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. Thesedifferent trends are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670541