Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring

Maarten Goos; Alan Manning; Anna Salomons

doi:10.1257/aer.104.8.2509

American Economic Review Vol. 104 No. 8 2014

Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring

Maarten Goos¹; Alan Manning²; Anna Salomons³

¹ Department of Economics, University of Leuven, Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven, Belgium (e-mail: ) · ² Centre for Economic Performance and Department of Economics, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom (e-mail: ) · ³ Utrecht University School of Economics, Adam Smith Hall, International Campus Utrecht, Kriekenpitplein 21-22, 3584 EC Utrecht, The Netherlands (e-mail: )

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Abstract

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.

DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.8.2509
Volume: 104
Issue: 8
Pages: 2509-2526
Language: en
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Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring

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