TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fleisher, Belton M.
AU  - McGuire, William H.
AU  - Su, Yaqin
AU  - Zhao, Min Qiang
        TI  - Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China
        PY  - 2018/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11569
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11569
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - wage growth
KW  - innovation
KW  - polarization
KW  - China
        ER  -