Cavaglia, Chiara and Etheridge, Ben (2020) Job Polarization and the Declining Quality of Knowledge Workers:Evidence from the UK and Germany. Labour Economics, 66. p. 101884. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101884
Cavaglia, Chiara and Etheridge, Ben (2020) Job Polarization and the Declining Quality of Knowledge Workers:Evidence from the UK and Germany. Labour Economics, 66. p. 101884. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101884
Cavaglia, Chiara and Etheridge, Ben (2020) Job Polarization and the Declining Quality of Knowledge Workers:Evidence from the UK and Germany. Labour Economics, 66. p. 101884. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101884
Abstract
Across the developed world, employment has polarized clearly by occupation, but changes to the wage structure have been harder to interpret. We examine changes to the wage structure in the UK and Germany, two countries with apparently very different trends. Using panel data, we argue that changes to quality-adjusted prices for occupations grouped by predominant tasks correlate strongly with employment growth in both countries, consistently with task-based changes to labour demand. The gap between price and average wage changes is strongest in top (knowledge) jobs, implying that the average quality of these workers has declined over time. We obtain further direct evidence on changes to worker quality using rich data on individual characteristics.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Job Polarization; Task Prices; Roy Model; Height; Cognitive Ability |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2020 13:47 |
Last Modified: | 07 Jan 2022 02:00 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/28200 |
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