Explaining job polarization: routine-biased technological change and offshoring

This paper documents the pervasiveness of job polarization in 16 Western European countries over the period 1993-2010. It then develops and estimates a framework to explain job polarization using routine-biased technological change and offshoring. This model can explain much of both total job polari...

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Published in:The American economic review 2014-08, Vol.104 (8), p.2509-2526
Main Authors: Goos, Maarten, Manning, Alan, Salomons, Anna
Format: Article
Language:English
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