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Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States

Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...

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The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

Autor, David; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...

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Employment polarization and the role of the apprenticeship system

Rendall, Michelle; Weiss, Franziska - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014

This paper studies the effects of the apprenticeship system on innovation and labor market polarization. A stylized model with two key features is developed: (1) apprentices are more productive due to industry-specific training, but (2) from the firm’s perspective, when training apprentices,...

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The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Equilibrium job turnover and the business cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Clymo, Alex; Coles, Melvyn Glyn - 2021

This paper develops and estimates a fully microfounded equilibrium business cycle model of the US labor market with aggregate productivity shocks. Those microfoundations are consistent with evidence regarding the underlying distribution of firm growth rates across firms [by age and size] and,...

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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2020

This paper studies the extent to which the cyclicality of gross and net occupational mobility shapes that of aggregate unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational mobility and unemployment duration over the...

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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2020

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Cyclical earnings, career and employment transitions

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022

This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...

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Cyclical earnings, career and employment transitions

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022

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Intergenerational Mobility, Gender Differences and the Role of Out-Migration : New Evidence from Spain

Soria-Espin, Javier - 2022

This paper provides the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility in Spain based on rich administrative data … linking millions of parents and children through tax returns. Four main results arise. First, Spain is located somewhere in … or Italy. Second, geographical variation in mobility rates is high in Spain but smaller than in other compared countries …

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