Technological Change and Labor Markets
Productivity, Job Polarization, and Inequality
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Technological Change and Labor Markets
Productivity, Job Polarization, and Inequality
About this book
In developed countries like the United States, Germany, and the UK, it has been observed that workers who perform non-routine activities, either cognitive or manual, have benefited in terms of employment and income, while those performing routinary tasks have seen their job prospects and wages decline. This has led to not only a polarization of the labor markets but also a decrease in certain measures of inequality. This phenomenon has been attributed to task-based technological change (TBTC), which differs from the skilled biased technological change in the fact that not only highly skilled workers have benefited from technology advancement. This book presents evidence of how digitalization and TBTC are affecting the labor markets of different regions of the world and examines the factors that cause this inequality among nations.
It examines recent issues around the effect of TBTC on the labor market and the economy in general, with a comparison of different countries in Central and Eastern Europe, North America, and Latin America, as well as in other regions of the world. The incorporation of these regions presents relevant particularities for the subject matter addressed in the book. The book also considers questions such as how labor market effects differ by gender and what the impact of digital skills on employment, inequalities, and public policies might be. In so doing, it identifies the advances, opportunities, and changes that have taken place, while also making public policy proposals.
This book will be a key reading to the global community of graduate students and researchers in the field of economics and, specifically, in the study of labor markets.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- About the contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Technical change, the task content of jobs and wage premium distribution in CEE countries
- 2 Digital skills and employment: inequalities and public policies in the European Union
- 3 Task-biased technological change in Germany: is it the routine or the manual?
- 4 The acceleration of technological change in the COVID-19 era: the case of ICT employment in Spain
- 5 The risk of technologically triggered job destruction: a view from Latin America
- 6 Has polarization benefited Latin American workers in the United States?
- 7 The impact of the digital economy on sectoral labor productivity in the North American economy, 2005–2020
- 8 Routine tasks and job polarization in Mexico
- 9 The role of occupational polarization in the face of the labor risk of automation in the Mexican economy
- 10 Routine occupations and informality in Brazil
- Index