{"id":2179,"date":"2017-11-07T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T21:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:40:17","slug":"labor-market-polarization-in-britain-and-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/2017\/11\/07\/labor-market-polarization-in-britain-and-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Market Polarization in Britain and Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 7, 2017, Tuesday at\u00a04:15 pm in Pettengill G65<em>,\u00a0<\/em>\u201cLabor Market Polarization in Britain and Germany: A Cross-National Comparison Using Longitudinal Household Data\u201d was presented by Xiupeng Wang, PhD Candidate from the University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Abstract:<\/span>\u00a0<b> <\/b>Since the 1980s, the share of the employment for mid-wage occupations decreased while the wages in these sections delined relative to the top and the bottom of the distribution. Such polarized pattern has been studied in many industrialized\u00a0countries including\u00a0Britain and Germany. As the result of\u00a0the technology advanced during this period, machines and computers have been largely\u00a0applied to production and can substitute for workers in occupations with a high content of routine tasks. Such phenomenon is phrased as Routine-biased Technical Change (RBTC). This paper takes the advantage of panel data to provide the insight of individual-level unobservable abilities and shows the strong evidence of the correlation between ability and occupational mobility. Among the routine workers, those with higher skills are positively\u00a0related to switching to higher paid non-routine cognitive occupations, while those with lower skills are more likely to switch to lower paid non-cognitive manual occupations. And such occupational mobility resulted in\u00a0a faster future wage growth\u00a0for the switchers on both directions, relative to those stayed in the routine occupations.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by The Casey Lecture Fund for Economics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 7, 2017, Tuesday at\u00a04:15 pm in Pettengill G65,\u00a0\u201cLabor Market Polarization&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}