Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174620 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
56th Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Cities & Regions: Smart, Sustainable, Inclusive?", 23-26 August 2016, Vienna, Austria
Publisher: 
European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Louvain-la-Neuve
Abstract: 
In most industrialized countries, employment has grown predominately in jobs at the upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. This process of job polarization is well documented for a number of countries. We propose a straightforward way to measure the actual magnitude of job polarization and use this measure to compare polarization across German local labor markets. Job polarization almost exclusively occurs in urban areas where the hypothesis of routine biased technological change is most likely to prevail.
Subjects: 
job polarization
local labor markets
job tasks
routine biased technological change
structural change
JEL: 
J31
J24
R23
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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