Lousy and lovely jobs
Subtitle: the rising polarization of work in Britain
By: Maarten Goos, Alan Manning.
Contributors: Manning, Alan.; London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 604; Discussion paper (London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance : Online) ;; no. 604.
Publisher: Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Labor market -- Great Britain -- Econometric models.; Unskilled labor -- Great Britain -- Econometric models.; Quality of work life -- Great Britain -- Econometric models.
Description: "This paper argues that skill-biased technical change has some deficiencies as a hypothesis about the impact of technology on the labor market and that a more nuanced view recently proposed by Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003) is a more accurate description. The difference between the two hypotheses is in the prediction about what is happening to employment in low-wage jobs. This paper presents evidence that employment in the UK is polarizing into lovely and lousy jobs and that a plausible explanation for this is the Autor, Levy and Murnane hypothesis"--London School of Economics web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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