We test the hypothesis that information and communication technologies (ICT) “polarize” labor markets, by increasing … on the US, Japan, and nine European countries from 1980–2004, we find that industries with faster ICT growth shifted … demand from middle educated workers to highly educated workers, consistent with ICT-based polarization. Trade openness is …

decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such as age-gender-skill cells). A generally …

good fraction of thisinequality growth is due to technology-related increases in the demand for skilled workersoutstripping … clerks, leaving the demand for the lowest skilled service tasks largely unaffected.Finally, I argue that technology is partly …

Murnane (2003) that this is partly due to information and communication technologies (ICT) complementing the analytical tasks …, and nine European countries 1980-2004 we find evidence consistent with ICT-based polarization. Industries with faster … growth of ICT had greater increases in relative demand for high educated workers and bigger falls in relative demand for …