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The puzzle of changes in employment and wages in routine task-intensive occupations

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  • Pallab Ghosh

    (University of Oklahoma)

  • Zexuan Liu

    (Nanjing Audit University)

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Autor and Dorn (Am Econ Rev 103(5):1553–1597, 2013) provide an explanation of the polarization of US employment and wages for the period 1980–2005. Using the 1980 Census and 2005 American Community Survey data, this study replicates the estimation results of Autor and Dorn (2013) for employment polarization in all major occupation groups and qualitatively matches the wage polarization results. Also, we investigate the puzzle of why employment and wages changed in opposite directions only in clerical and administrative support occupations in 1980–2005.

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  • Pallab Ghosh & Zexuan Liu, 2023. "The puzzle of changes in employment and wages in routine task-intensive occupations," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 65(4), pages 1965-1980, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:empeco:v:65:y:2023:i:4:d:10.1007_s00181-023-02394-x
    DOI: 10.1007/s00181-023-02394-x
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