2004
DOI: 10.1111/j.0036-9292.2004.00322.x
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We Can Work It Out: The Impact of Technological Change on the Demand for Low‐Skill Workers

Abstract: There is little doubt that technology has had the most profound effect on altering the tasks that we humans do in our jobs. Economists have long speculated on how technical change affects both the absolute demand for labour as a whole and the relative demands for different types of labour. In recent years, the idea of skill-biased technical change has become the consensus view about the current impact of technology on labour demand, namely that technical change leads to an increase in the demand for skilled re… Show more

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“…In the long run, the main driving force behind changes in the tasks humans do in their jobs is technology (Manning, 2004). In comparison, other demand-side factors such as international trade or shifts in product demand may at best play a modest role (OECD, 2005).…”
Section: Demand-side Accounts Of Occupational Change: Technical Changementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In the long run, the main driving force behind changes in the tasks humans do in their jobs is technology (Manning, 2004). In comparison, other demand-side factors such as international trade or shifts in product demand may at best play a modest role (OECD, 2005).…”
Section: Demand-side Accounts Of Occupational Change: Technical Changementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The SBTC explanation has been challenged by the 'routinization' hypothesis (Autor et al, 2003;Manning, 2004). Its central argument involves a re-specification of the types of jobs that are most likely to be replaced by technology.…”
Section: Demand-side Accounts Of Occupational Change: Technical Changementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Such rapidly growing occupations require spatial proximity to the populations and markets they serve and thus cluster around highly affluent populations and areas (Manning, 2004;Goos and Manning, 2007;Goos, Manning, and Salomons, 2009). The personalized nature of such low-skill service work reinforces the growth and co-location of high-skill and low-skill jobs in the same places, underpinning and reinforcing regional wage inequality.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Manning (2004) and Mazzolari and Ragusa (2007) argue that the increase in the demand for low-wage occupations over the last two decades is driven by a surge in the demand for non-traded household services by high-wage earners. 4 Our results provide evidence of a demand for household services that responds to price changes driven by immigration.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%