scholarly journals Training Requirements, Automation, and Job Polarisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 130 (631) ◽  
pp. 2249-2271
Author(s):  
Andy Feng ◽  
Georg Graetz
Keyword(s):  
Job Training ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Initial Training ◽  
Training Requirements ◽  
Job Polarisation

Abstract We analyse how job training requirements interact with engineering complexity in shaping firms’ automation decisions. A model that distinguishes between a task’s engineering complexity and its training requirements predicts that when two tasks are equally complex, firms automate the task that requires more training. Under plausible conditions this leads to job polarisation, and in particular to polarisation of employment by initial training requirements. US data provide empirical support for the model’s implications. Training requirements and a measure of engineering complexity account for much of US job polarisation from 1980 to 2008.

scholarly journals Explaining job polarisation in Spain from a task perspective

SERIEs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Sebastian
Keyword(s):  
Job Polarisation

Are we ready? Labour market transit to the digital economy

2021 ◽  
pp. 147797142098334
Author(s):  
Nicolás Didier
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Educational Mismatch ◽  
Funding Policies ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Job Polarisation ◽  
Educational Market ◽  
Industrialised Countries ◽  
The Impact

Industrialised countries are currently facing the knowledge-to-digital economy transition. That transition is strictly defined by how the labour market is organised and operates in the national economy. Some old to new phenomena are determinants of those dimensions, such as educational mismatch, credential inflation, and job polarisation. These phenomena affect the relationship between schooling and earnings, carrying consequences for social mobility, household welfare, and an individual's social progression perspective. Those phenomena remain understudied in the context of Latin America. Chile's case has gained relevance in the region due to the highly deregulated organisation of its educational market, the quality increase in its higher education institutions, and its funding policies for higher education. This work attempts to provide an extended diagnosis of the Chilean labour market, considering the impact of these emerging issues on the educational market and policymaking. The results show that 83.6% of Chilean employees experience an educational mismatch (overeducation and undereducation); credential inflation has depreciated the value of education over five of the six occupational categories – besides the polarisation index for industrialised countries such as the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals Job Polarisation and Earnings Inequality in Australia

2015 ◽  
Vol 92 (296) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Coelli ◽  
Jeff Borland
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Inequality ◽  
Job Polarisation
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