This study investigates job polarization in the United States and in France. In the data, the dynamics of employment shares for abstract, routine, and manual jobs appear very similar in the two countries. This similarity actually hides major differences in the dynamics of employment levels by...

Intro -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Job Quality in the United States -- Part I: Changing Work Structures and Workers -- Chapter 2: Economic Transformation and the Decline of Institutional Protections -- Chapter 3: New Workers, New Differences -- Part II:...