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Are jobs more polarized in ICT firms?
Authors: Petri Böckerman, Seppo Laaksonen, Jari Vainiomäki
Publisher: IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor)
Publication year: 2016
Series title: IZA Discussion Papers
Number in series: 9851
Web address : http://ftp.iza.org/dp9851.pdf
We perform decompositions and regression analyses that test the routinization hypothesis and implied job polarization at the firm level. Prior studies have focused on the aggregate industry or local levels. Our results for the abstract and routine occupation groups are consistent with the routinization hypothesis at the firm level. The observed changes are linked to ICT adoption. Thus, disappearing middle-level (routine) work can be traced to firmlevel technological change.
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