%0 Report
        %A Fleisher, Belton M.
%A McGuire, William H.
%A Su, Yaqin
%A Zhao, Min Qiang
        %T Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China
        %D 2018
        %8 2018 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 11569
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11569
        %X Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in a number of papers on advanced economies and some work on the Chinese economy. While the Unskilled and Self-Employment jobs remain below median income, the redistribution of employment has not been associated with a commensurate polarization of labor income. We find no evidence of polarization of either employment or income at the upper end of the job-skill spectrum.
        %K wage growth
%K innovation
%K polarization
%K China