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Automation and Job Polarization: On the Decline of Middling Occupations in Europe [Charles University-CERGE_WP revised]

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Using data from 10 Western European countries, I provide evidence that the fall in prices of information technologies (IT) is associated with a lower share of employment in middle wage occupations and a higher share of employment in high wage occupations.The decline in IT prices has no robust effect on the share of employment in the lowest paid occupations. Similar results hold within gender, age and education-level groups,with notable differences in these groups. For instance, the share of employment in high wage occupations among females has increased more than among males with the fall in IT prices. This is consistent with arguments that women hold a comparative advantage in communication and social skills, which are complementary to IT and in demand in high wage occupations.

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Sistemes d'informació, Gestió de la informació, Política d'ocupació, Polarització (Ciències socials), Projecte educatiu

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Information storage and retrieval systems, Information resources management, Manpower policy, Polarization (Social sciences), Education planning

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JERBASHIAN, Vahagn. Automation and Job Polarization: On the Decline of Middling Occupations in Europe [Charles University-CERGE_WP revised]. CERGE-EI Working Paper Series. 2016. Vol. 576, num. 1-51. ISSN 1211-3298. [consulted: 8 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/166075

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