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Technological Change and Labor Markets: Productivity, Job Polarization, and Inequality

Technological Change and Labor Markets: Productivity, Job Polarization, and Inequality

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Labour Economics

EconomicsLabor

ISBN10: 1032486244
ISBN13: 9781032486246
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 28 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In developed countries like the United States, Germany, and the UK, it has been observed that workers who perform non-routine activities, either cognitive or manual, have benefited in terms of employment and income, while those performing routinary tasks have seen their job prospects and wages decline. This has led to not only a polarization of the labor markets but also a decrease in certain measures of inequality. This phenomenon has been attributed to task-based technological change (TBTC), which differs from the skilled biased technological change in the fact that not only highly skilled workers have benefited from technology advancement. This book presents evidence of how digitalization and TBTC are affecting the labor markets of different regions of the world and examines the factors that cause this inequality among nations.

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