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The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It

by Timothy Noah · 23 Apr 2012 · 309pp · 91,581 words

hollowing out. This trend isn’t unique to the United States. The Japanese have a word for it: kudoka. MIT’s David Autor calls it “job polarization,” and in his view it’s driven by the substitution of jobs like the ones described above with lower-wage service jobs: “food service workers

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Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market,” Center for American Progress, Apr. 2010, 16–18, at http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/04/pdf/job_polarization.pdf; Robert G. Valletta, “Computer Use and the U.S. Wage Distribution, 1984–2003,” Working Paper 2006–34 (San Francisco: Federal Reserve Bank, 2006), 14

Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

by Tyler Cowen · 11 Sep 2013 · 291pp · 81,703 words

Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, May 2011. On labor market polarization in Europe, see Maarten Goos, Alan Manning, and Anna Salomons, “Explaining Job Polarization in Europe: The Roles of Technology, Globalization, and Institutions,” CEP Discussion Paper 1026, Centre for Economic Performance, November 2010. On the importance of wage gains

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Restructuring and Jobless Recoveries,” Yale University, November 16, 2011. On jobless recoveries, see also Nir Jaimovich and Henry E. Siu, “The Trend Is the Cycle: Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries,” National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper, August 2012. On unfitness to serve in the military, see “A Conversation with Arne Duncan

The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

by Gabriel Winant · 23 Mar 2021 · 563pp · 136,190 words

; Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 96. 8. Rachel E. Dwyer, “The Care Economy? Gender, Economic Restructuring, and Job Polarization in the U.S. Labor Market,” American Sociological Review 78, no. 3 (June 2013), 398. On debates over definitions of care and their significance, see

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class

by Joel Kotkin · 11 May 2020 · 393pp · 91,257 words

-on-business/economy/jobs/the-continuing-decline-of-the-middle-skill-worker/article12303799/. 41 Enrique Fernandez-Macias, “Job Polarisation in Europe: Are Mid-Skilled Jobs Disappearing?” Social Europe, July 30, 2015, https://www.socialeurope.eu/job-polarisation-in-europe-are-mid-skilled-jobs-disappearing; Margo Hoftijzer and Lucas Gortazar, Skills and Europe’s Labor

Social Democratic America

by Lane Kenworthy · 3 Jan 2014 · 283pp · 73,093 words

–666. Jacoby, Melissa. 2012. “Financial Fragility, Medical Problems, and the Bankruptcy System.” Unpublished paper. Jaimovich, Nir and Henry Siu. 2012. “The Trend Is the Cycle: Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries.” Working Paper 18334. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Jäntti, Markus, Bernt Bratsbert, Knut Røed, Oddbjørn Rauum, Robin Naylor, Eva Österbacka

The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory

by Kariappa Bheemaiah · 26 Feb 2017 · 492pp · 118,882 words

are intertwined with these factors. Sidebar 3-1 offers some insight. Sidebar 3-1: How Technology is Replacing Skills and Tasks Source: “Inequality, Technology and Job Polarization of the Youth Labor Market in Europe” (Bheemaiah & Smith, 2015). The growth of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has had broad encompassing effects on various

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the demand of high-skill and low-skills jobs, but coupled with a fall in the demand for routine or “middle-skilled” ** jobs, and that job polarization was leading to a shrinking concentration of employment in occupations in the middle of the skill distribution. The polarization effect also had an impact on

The Fissured Workplace

by David Weil · 17 Feb 2014 · 518pp · 147,036 words

calls the longer-term trend in occupational employment growth at the top and bottom of the wage distribution and the accompanying decline of the middle “job polarization.” Job polarization arises from the impact of automation (and to a lesser extent outsourcing) of routine jobs in the economy that tend to be in the mid

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for LPOs or journalists working for companies like Journatic looks different than one where those professions sit inside traditional law firms or media companies. The job polarization story, therefore, explains part of the changing job profile of economic recovery, but neglects the intersection of the organizational location where nonroutine jobs are undertaken

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trends in job growth among the three occupational wage groupings in Europe. 51. This area is ripe with research questions, including the relative contribution of job polarization as posed by Autor and others versus fissuring as posed here on changes in the overall wage structure. Stay tuned. 12. A Path Forward Epigraphs

Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History

by Stephen D. King · 22 May 2017 · 354pp · 92,470 words

tables – those who fall by the wayside may find themselves in competition for manual jobs with others who have fewer educational qualifications. The result is ‘job polarization’: the middle of the labour market is hollowed out, even as both high- and low-wage jobs expand.11 This process of polarization is obviously

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality From the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

by Walter Scheidel · 17 Jan 2017 · 775pp · 208,604 words

the Kuznets hypothesis.” Cambridge Journal of Economics 22: 39–58. Mishel, Lawrence, Shierholz, Heidi, and Schmitt, John. 2013. “Don’t blame the robots: assessing the job polarization explanation of growing wage inequality.” Economic Policy Institute—Center for Economic and Policy Research, Working Paper. Mithen, Steven. 2003. After the ice: a global human

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

by Martin Ford · 4 May 2015 · 484pp · 104,873 words

5, 2013, http://www.progressivepolicy.org/2013/08/no-recovery-for-young-people/. 42. Nir Jaimovich and Henry E. Siu, “The Trend Is the Cycle: Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries,” National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. 18334, issued in August 2012, http://www.nber.org/papers/w18334, also available at

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. 8–9, http://economics.mit.edu/files/5554. 46. Ibid., p. 4. 47. Ibid., p. 2. 48. Jaimovich and Siu, “The Trend Is the Cycle: Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries,” p. 2. 49. Chrystia Freeland, “The Rise of ‘Lovely’ and ‘Lousy’ Jobs,” Reuters, April 12, 2012, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012