Job polarization: an historical perspective
| Autor: | Buyst, E., Goos, M., Salomons, A.M., Overig wetenschappelijk personeel, Econometrie en kwantitatieve methoden, UU LEG Research UUSE Multidisciplinary Economics |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Overig wetenschappelijk personeel, Econometrie en kwantitatieve methoden, UU LEG Research UUSE Multidisciplinary Economics |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
Labour economics Technological change 05 social sciences Polarization (politics) technological change Second Industrial Revolution B Journal Management Monitoring Policy and Law historical census data job polarization Taverne 0502 economics and business Market data Economics 050207 economics Digital Revolution 050205 econometrics |
| Zdroj: | Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 34(3), 461. Oxford University Press |
| ISSN: | 1460-2121 0266-903X |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxrep/gry003 |
| Popis: | This paper uses historical labour market data for Belgium for the period 1846–2011 to illustrate how the employment impacts of the ongoing Digital Revolution after 1980 compare to those of the Second Industrial Revolution before 1980. Our analyses show that the period 1846–1947 was characterized by economy-wide skill-upgrading due to an increase in the demand for skilled relative to unskilled workers because of skill-biased technological change (SBTC). The period 1947–81 is characterized by particularly high labour market turbulence, in part due to a gradual switch from economy-wide skill-upgrading to job polarization. Consequently, the impact of the ongoing Digital Revolution on labour markets after 1980 is not uniquely characterized by exceptionally high labour market turbulence but by the nature of changes in the composition of jobs, namely a process of job polarization. To explain job polarization, the paper discusses the hypothesis of Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC) that has recently emerged in the academic literature. |
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