markets. On the U.S. side, we find little evidence of large or accelerating skill-biased demand shifts after the early 1980s … as measured by standard indices of the skill-intensity of employment. This is significant since most of the impact of … computerization on the organization and skill requirements in the workplace has occurred in precisely this later period. There is also …

and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between … that were specialized in routine activities differentially adopted information technology, reallocated low skill labor into …), and received inflows of skilled labor. -- skill demand ; job tasks ; inequality ; polarization ; technological change …