Job polarization, technological change and routinization. Evidence for Portugal.

Autor/inn/en	Fonseca, Tiago; Lima, Francisco; Pereira, Sonia C.
Titel	Job polarization, technological change and routinization. Evidence for Portugal. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Berufliche Polarisierung, technischer Wandel und Routinisierung. Erkenntnisse für Portugal.
Quelle	In: Labour economics, (2018) 51, S. 317-339 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0927-5371
DOI	10.1016/j.labeco.2018.02.003
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Geistige Arbeit; Technologische Entwicklung; Beschäftigungseffekt; Lohnentwicklung; Beschäftigungsentwicklung; Qualifikation; Qualifikationsanforderung; Tätigkeitswandel; Auswirkung; Manuelle Arbeit; Routine; Portugal
Abstract	"This paper studies labor market polarization in Portugal, a country with slow capital accumulation and a low share of highly educated workers. We use firm census data for 1986 - 2007 and uncover polarization in employment and wages in the second half of this period. This mostly appears to be due to technological change. Our results show a sharp increase of both employment and wage premium for abstract tasks relative to routine tasks. In contrast to the existing literature, we separate between routine manual tasks and routine cognitive tasks. We uncover a sharp decline in routine manual employment but the decline in routine cognitive employment is modest and coupled with an increased wage premium that does not appear to be due to worker selection. This latter result is mainly explained by the large expansion of the service sector which employs many workers in routine cognitive-intensive jobs and the likely slower computer capital adoption resulting from the relatively low levels of human capital, by international standards." (Author's abstract, © 2018 Elsevier).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/3