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Automation and Job Polarization: On the Decline of Middling Occupations in Europe

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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 in industries which depend more on IT relative to industries which depend less. Similar results hold within gender and age groups, with notable differences in these groups. For instance, the share of employment in high wage occupations among males has increased less than among females with the fall in IT prices.

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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. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 2019. Vol. 81, num. 5, pags. 1095-1116. ISSN 0305-9049. [consulted: 18 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/153577

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