Technology and regulation as determinants of employment rigidities and wage inequality

Chapter I, "Lousy and lovely jobs: the rising polarization of work in Britain", shows that the UK since 1975 has exhibited a pattern of job polarization with rises in employment shares in the highest- and lowest-wage occupations. This is not entirely consistent with the standard view of sk...

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Main Author: Goos, Maarten
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2005
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432021