Are jobs more polarized in ICT firms?

Petri Böckerman (Turku School of Economics, Labour Institute for Economic Research and IZA), Seppo Laaksonen (University of Helsinki), Jari Vainiomäki (University of Tampere)

We perform decompositions and regression analyses that test the routinization hypothesis and implied job polarization at the firm level. Prior studies have focused on the aggregate, industry or local levels. Our results for the abstract and routine occupation groups are consistent with the routinization hypothesis at the firm level. The observed changes are linked to ICT adoption. Thus, disappearing middle-level (routine) work can be traced to firm-level technological change.

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Year of publication:	March 2016
Authors:	Böckerman, Petri ; Laaksonen, Seppo ; Vainiomäki, Jari
Publisher:	Bonn, Germany : IZA
Subject:	skill-biased technological change \| job polarization \| routinization \| Technischer Fortschritt \| Technological change \| Qualifikation \| Occupational qualification \| Informationstechnik \| Information technology \| Lohnstruktur \| Wage structure \| Hochqualifizierte Arbeitskräfte \| Highly skilled workers \| Anforderungsprofil \| Occupational profile \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Ungelernte Arbeitskräfte \| Unskilled workers

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 38 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. no. 9851
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/141610 [Handle]
Classification:	J23 - Employment Determination; Job Creation; Demand for Labor; Self-Employment ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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