Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over Twenty-Five Years
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Abstract
Abstract We test the hypothesis that information and communication technologies (ICT) polarize labor markets by increasing demand for the highly educated at the expense of the middle educated, with little effect on low-educated workers. Using data on the United States, Japan, and nine European countries from 1980 to 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 also associated with polarization, but this is not robust to controlling for R&D. Technologies account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for highly educated workers.
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- Venue
- The Review of Economics and Statistics
- Topic
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Field
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Canadian institutions
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- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Keywords
- Openness to experienceInformation and Communications TechnologyQuarter (Canadian coin)Polarization (electrochemistry)EconomicsLabour economicsOn demandDemographic economicsBusinessPolitical scienceCommerceGeographyPsychology
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