Can the Labor Demand Curve Explain Job Polarization?
| Autor: | Andreas Peichl, Martin Popp |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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skills Polymers and Plastics J31 Wage Level and Structure Wage Differentials J23 skills tasks J23 Labor Demand L60 Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General labor demand Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering job polarization ddc:330 L60 D22 Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis Business and International Management J31 tasks D22 |
| Zdroj: | Martin Popp |
| DOI: | 10.48720/iab.dp.2221 |
| Popis: | In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of jobpolarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constituteconventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts inlabor supply along the labor demand curve may equally result in job polarization. In thisstudy, we assess the impact of labor supply shifts on job polarization. To this end, wedetermine unconditional wage elasticities of labor demand from a unique estimation of aprofit-maximization model on linked employer-employee data from Germany. Unlikestandard practice, we explicitly allow for variations in output and find that negative scaleeffects matter. Both for a skill- and a novel task-based division of the workforce, ourelasticity estimates show that supply shifts from immigration and a decline in collectivebargaining successfully explain occupational employment patterns during the 1990s. IAB-Discussion Paper |
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