TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Naticchioni, Paolo
AU  - Ragusa, Giuseppe
AU  - Massari, Riccardo
        TI  - Unconditional and Conditional Wage Polarization in Europe
        PY  - 2014/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8465
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8465
        AB  - This paper investigates the dynamics of the distribution of unconditional and conditional – on technology – wages in Europe, using both industry and individual level data for the period 1995-2007. We find that the unconditional wage distribution shows scant signs of polarization in Europe. On the other hand, the effect of technology is more nuanced. At the industry level, technological changes have an effect on polarization of jobs, but not on polarization of wages. At the individual level, we use a counterfactual distributional analysis which accounts for the heterogeneity of tasks across occupations, and we find only mild evidence of wage polarization. Technology affects the lower and upper part of the wage distribution in different ways, with service tasks affecting the lower quantiles and abstract tasks affecting the higher ones.
        KW  - wage inequality
KW  - polarization
KW  - occupational tasks
KW  - offshoring
KW  - RIF-regressions
        ER  -