Explaining job polarisation in Spain from a task perspective
"This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarization between 1994 and 2008 in Spain. After showing the U-shaped relationship between employment share growth and job’s percentile in the wage distribution, we use the task approach to analyse the main determinants behind job pola...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
| Format: | TEXT |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam
2017
AIAS |
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| Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19396857124911140399-explaining-job-polarisation-in.htm |
| Summary: | "This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarization between 1994 and 2008 in Spain. After showing the U-shaped relationship between employment share growth and job’s percentile in the wage distribution, we use the task approach to analyse the main determinants behind job polarization. Using the European Working Condition Survey (EWCS) we analyse in detail the task content of the jobs which display the most significant employment changes. We show that changes in employment shares are negatively related to the initial level of routine. We then explore the impact of computerisation on routine task inputs and we find that our routine measure is negatively related to computerisation. Finally, by using information on past jobs, we provide evidence on the displacement of middle-paid workers, showing that they did not predominantly reallocate their labour supply to low-paid occupations. Our argumentation is that the increased at the lower part of the distribution is not only based on the displacement of national middle-workers. The role of increasing migration could play a role on it." |
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| Physical Description: | 35 p. Digital |