Technological Change and Labor Markets: Productivity, Job Polarization, and Inequality

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Reyna Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez Liliana Meza González

Technological Change and Labor Markets

Productivity, Job Polarization, and Inequality

Reyna Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez, Liliana Meza González

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English

Routledge
28 October 2024

Development studies; Economics of industrial organisation; Labour economics; Political economy; Human geography

Series: Routledge Studies in Labour Economics

In developed countries like the United States, Germany, and the UK, it has been observed that workers who perform non-routine activities, either cognitive or manual, have benefited in terms of employment and income, while those performing routinary tasks have seen their job prospects and wages decline. This has led to not only a polarization of the labor markets but also a decrease in certain measures of inequality. This phenomenon has been attributed to task-based technological change (TBTC), which differs from the skilled biased technological change in the fact that not only highly skilled workers have benefited from technology advancement. This book presents evidence of how digitalization and TBTC are affecting the labor markets of different regions of the world and examines the factors that cause this inequality among nations.

It examines recent issues around the effect of TBTC on the labor market and the economy in general, with a comparison of different countries in Central and Eastern Europe, North America, and Latin America, as well as in other regions of the world. The incorporation of these regions presents relevant particularities for the subject matter addressed in the book. The book also considers questions such as how labor market effects differ by gender and what the impact of digital skills on employment, inequalities, and public policies might be. In so doing, it identifies the advances, opportunities, and changes that have taken place, while also making public policy proposals.

This book will be a key reading to the global community of graduate students and researchers in the field of economics and, specifically, in the study of labor markets.

Edited by: Reyna Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez, Liliana Meza González
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 612g
ISBN: 9781032486246
ISBN 10: 1032486244
Series: Routledge Studies in Labour Economics
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 28 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reyna Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez is a professor-researcher at the Faculty of Economics, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, Saltillo, México. Liliana Meza González is a professor at the International Studies Department, Universidad Iberoamericana, Lomas de Santa Fe, México.