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Lousy and Lovely Jobs: the Rising Polarization of Work in Britain

Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

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...

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We Can Work It Out: the Impact of Technological Change on the Demand for Low Skill Workers

Manning, Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

There is little doubt that technology has had the most profound effect on altering the tasks that wehumans do in our jobs. Economists have long speculated on how technical change affects boththe absolute demand for labour as a whole and the relative demands for different types of labour.In...

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Trade and Labor Market Outcomes

Helpman, Elhanan; Itskhoki, Oleg; Redding, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market …. It implies that the opening of trade may raise inequality and unemployment, but always raises welfare. Unilateral … reductions in labor market frictions increase a country's welfare, can raise or reduce its unemployment rate, yet always hurt the …

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