Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/180587 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11569
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in a number of papers on advanced economies and some work on the Chinese economy. While the Unskilled and Self-Employment jobs remain below median income, the redistribution of employment has not been associated with a commensurate polarization of labor income. We find no evidence of polarization of either employment or income at the upper end of the job-skill spectrum.
Subjects: 
polarization
innovation
wage growth
China
JEL: 
J24
J31
O30
D33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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