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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w27455 |
来源ID | Working Paper 27455 |
Income-driven Labor Market Polarization | |
Diego A. Comin; Ana Danieli; Martí Mestieri | |
发表日期 | 2020-06-29 |
出版年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We propose a mechanism for labor-market polarization based on the nonhomotheticity of demand that we call the income-driven channel. Our mechanism builds on a novel empirical fact: expenditure elasticities and production intensities in low- and high-skill occupations are positively correlated across sectors. Thus, as income grows, demand shifts towards expenditure-elastic sectors, and the relative demand for low- and high-skill occupations increases, causing labor-market polarization. A calibrated general-equilibrium model suggests this mechanism accounts for 90% and 35% of the increase in the wage-bill share of low- and high-skill occupations observed in the US during 1980-2016, and for 64% and 28% of the rise in the employment shares of low- and high-skill occupations. This mechanism is similarly important for the polarization of labor markets in Western Europe during 1980-2016, as well as in the US during earlier decades and, possibly, the near future. |
主题 | Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27455 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585128 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Diego A. Comin,Ana Danieli,Martí Mestieri. Income-driven Labor Market Polarization. 2020. |
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