Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/146166 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2015-051
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper extends Pissarides (1990)'s matching model by considering two sectors (routine and manual) and workers' occupational choices, in the context of skill-biased demand shifts, to the detriment of routine jobs and in favour of manual jobs because of technological changes. The theoretical challenge is to investigate the reallocation process from the middle towards the bottom of the wage distribution. By using this framework, we shed light on the way in which labour market institutions affect the job polarization observed in the United States and Europe. The results of our quantitative experiments suggest that search frictions have non-trivial effects on the reallocation process and transitional dynamics of aggregate employment.
Subjects: 
search and matching
job polarization
reallocation
labor market institutions
JEL: 
E24
J62
J64
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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