We Can Work It Out: the Impact of Technological Change on the Demand for Low Skill Workers

By Alan Manning. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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Upgrading or Polarization? Occupational Change in Britain, Germany, Spain and Switzerland, 1990-2008 (2010, unknown): “The first focuses on labour demand and advances a more nuanced theory of skill-biased technological change where computers complement both high-skilled analytical and lowskilled interpersonal tasks, but substitute for mid-skilled manual and clerical tasks (Autor et al., 2003, 2008; Manning, 2004).”
Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings. NBER Working Paper No. 16082. (2010, unknown): “See also Manning ( 2004 ) and Mazzolari and Ragusa ( 2008 ) for models of rising service demand based on substitution of market In summary , the displacement of jobs that are intensive in routine tasks may have contributed to the polarization of employment by reducing job opportunities in middle -…”
Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure? (2009, methodology): “To operationalize the task categories, we follow Spitz-Oener (2006) as closely as possible(12) and aggregate(13) the 14 different tasks reported in the data to the five task measures suggested by Autor et al.”
Job polarization and structural change (2014, background): “In what follows we document each of these facts in detail.”
Spillovers from High-Skill Consumption to Low-Skill Labor Markets (2007, methodology): “Following Manning (2004), we embed this concept in a model for an economy with two types of workers (skilled and unskilled) who derive utility from consuming two types of goods: a general good y, produced by firms using a technology in both skilled and unskilled labor, and a domestic good x, which…”