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Title: The Wage Effects of Job Polarization: Evidence from the Allocation of Talents
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Boehm, Michael J. |
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The Wage Effects of Job Polarization: Evidence from the Allocation of Talents Working Paper, University of Bonn and London Centre for Economic Performance, April 2014. Also: http://www.econ.uzh.ch/eiit/Events/sinergiaconference2014/abstractsandpapers2014/Boehm_Michael_The_Wage_Effects_of_Job_Polarizations.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics & Political Science Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Earnings; Job Patterns; Job Skills; Occupational Choice; Occupations; Wage Differentials Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article studies the wage effects of job polarization on 27 year old male workers from the cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Guided by a Roy model of occupational choice I compare workers who have characteristics that put them into high-, middle-, and low-skill occupations over the two cohorts. Results indicate that the relative wages of middle-skill occupation workers have dropped. The effect of job polarization on the overall wage distribution that is implied by the model explains the increase at the top of the actual distribution but it has difficulty matching the increase at the bottom. |
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Boehm, Michael J. "The Wage Effects of Job Polarization: Evidence from the Allocation of Talents." Working Paper, University of Bonn and London Centre for Economic Performance, April 2014. |