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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151083
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Lovely and lousy jobs
Manning, Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
The phenomenon of 'job polarisation' is increasing inequality as the labour market splits into high- and low-wage work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721424
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Lousy and lovely jobs: the rising polarization of work in Britain
Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745430
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We can work it out: the impact of technological change on the demand for low skill workers
Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
There is little doubt that technology has had the most profound effect on altering the tasks that we humans do in our jobs. Economists have long speculated on how technical change affects both the absolute demand for labour as a whole and the relative demands for different types of labour. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746374
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601006
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Chronicle of a deceleration foretold: Income inequality in Latin America in the 2010s
Gasparini, Leonardo; Cruces, Guillermo; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - 2015
signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the … result of two set of reasons. First, several of the driving factors of the fall in inequality in the 2000s have lost strength … early 2010s, making further reductions in inequality more difficult. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646663
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The growth-employment-poverty Nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Cross-country analysis
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - 2016
In the great majority of Latin American countries in the 2000s, economic growth took place and brought about improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth was not all that mattered; external factors were...
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The rise and fall of income inequality in Chile
Parro, Francisco; Reyes, Loreto - In: Latin American Economic Review 26 (2017) 1, pp. 1-31
This paper presents evidence on a rise and fall in income inequality in Chile during the past two decades. We show that … income inequality rises from 1990 to 2000 and then falls from 2000 to 2011. We perform simple but informative decompositions … to figure out the contributing factors behind that dissimilarity in the behavior of inequality across those two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994321
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Bolivia: Los avances sociales y laborales en el periodo de boom económico y los desafíos con el fin de la bonanza
Wanderley, Fernanda - 2018
inequality following the trend of Latin America. The analysis of the evolution of the Unsatisfied Basic Needs Index (NBI) also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100636
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The labor market in Israel, 2000-2016
Larom, Tali; Lifshitz, Osnat - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
groups has increased due to growth in labor income; however, inequality between households has increased. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820341