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Job Polarization and the Declining Wages of Young Female Workers in the United Kingdom*

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, ISSN: 1468-0084, Vol: 85, Issue: 6, Page: 1185-1210
2023
  • 7
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 12
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    7
    • Citation Indexes
      4
    • Policy Citations
      3
      • Policy Citation
        3
  • Captures
    12

Article Description

We examine whether the decline of routine occupations contributed to rising wage inequality between young and prime-age non-college educated women in the UK over 2001-2019. We estimate age, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment in different occupations and the wages earned therein. For recent generations, cohort effects indicate a higher likelihood of employment in low-paying manual jobs relative to high-paying abstract ones. Cohort effects also underpin falling wages for post-1980 cohorts across all occupations. We find that the latter channel, rather than job polarization, has been the main driver of rising inter-age inequality among non-college females.

Bibliographic Details

Era Dabla-Norris; Carlo Pizzinelli; Jay Rappaport

Wiley

Mathematics; Social Sciences; Economics, Econometrics and Finance; Decision Sciences

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