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Title: Labor Market Polarisation and the Implications for Education
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Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: Polarisation in the labour market involves a fall in the share of intermediate-level jobs in an economy, and a simultaneous rise in both high- and low-level jobs. It therefore represents a break from late twentieth-century thinking, where skills were typically thought as being a dichotomy of high and low, rather than a trichotomy of high, intermediate and low levels, and when it was supposed that technological progress would continue to lead to the expansion of the high-level, and the replacement of the low-level, jobs. While high-level jobs do indeed continue to expand at a fast rate, the big change that polarisation has brought is the expansion of low-level jobs, at the apparent expense of intermediate-level jobs. This in turn can have implications for education policy and the supply skills to the labour market, with a discussion of such implications being the ultimate aim of this chapter.
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Authors: McIntosh, Steven
Editors: Johnes, Geraint; Johnes, Jill; Agasisti, Tommaso; Lopez-Torres, Laura
Pages: 464
Volume Title: Handbook of Contemporary Education Economics
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publisher Location: Northampton, MA
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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