results are confirmed by the empirical findings obtained for two-digit US manufacturing industries, which also highlight the …

, shifts demand towards high- and low-skill jobs, resulting in job polarization of the U.S. labor market. We test whether … recessions accelerate this process. In doing so we establish a new fact about the demand for skill over the business cycle. Using … sizable in magnitude and largely due to changes in skill requirements within firm-occupation cells. We argue that upskilling …

and understand this finding theoretically, we consider a free trade model with two goods/industries, two skill types, and …

such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the self-employed have no incentive to invest in a costly signal to show …

long-run job polarization in both Sweden and the US. In particular, the shrinking manufacturing sector, with the subsequent …

-processing tasks in non-manufacturing. -- technological change ; trade flows ; import competition ; skill demand ; job tasks ; local … employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labor markets susceptible to computerization due to … specialization in routine task-intensive activities experience significant occupational polarization within manufacturing and non-manufacturing …