Explaining job polarization: routine-biased technological change and offshoring
Goos, M., Manning, A.
& Salomons, A.
(2014).
Explaining job polarization: routine-biased technological change and offshoring.
American Economic Review,
104(8), 2509-2526.
https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.8.2509
& Salomons, A.
(2014).
Explaining job polarization: routine-biased technological change and offshoring.
American Economic Review,
104(8), 2509-2526.
https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.8.2509
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 polarization and the split into within- industry and between-industry components.