[Econmaster2012] Research Seminar in Economics

[Frank Stähler]

Dear all,

The presenter in this week's "Research Seminar in Economics" on Tuesday, 
14.01., is Michael Böhm from the University of Bonn.

The title of his talk will be

"The Wage Effects of Job Polarization: Evidence from the Allocation of 
Talents"

http://www.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de/forschung0/research-seminars/research-seminar-in-economics.html

The seminar starts at 18.00 h in Room E09, Mohlstr. 36. You can find an 
abstract of the paper below.

Everybody is welcome.

Best wishes,

Udo Kreickemeier


Abstract
Over the last decades, the United States and other developed countries 
have experienced profound job polarization whereby employment in 
high-skill and low-skill occupations increased at the expense of 
employment in middle-skill occupations. This paper examines the wage 
effects of job polarization: first, have the relative wages of workers 
in middle-skill occupations declined as the prevalent demand-side 
explanation for job polarization predicts? Second, has the relative 
price paid per unit of effective labor in the middle-skill occupations 
dropped with polarization? Third, can job polarization explain the 
changes in the overall wage distribution over that time period? I answer 
these questions by comparing over time two representative cohorts of 
young workers in the United States for whom I can consistently measure 
relative skills in occupations. My results show that the answer to the 
first two questions is yes while the answer to the third question is 
partly yes and partly inconclusive.












-- 
Frank Stähler
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
International Economics and Labor Markets
The University of Tübingen
Mohlstr. 36 (V4)
D-72074 Tübingen, Germany
frank.staehler at uni-tuebingen.de

Adjunct Professor of Economics
School of Economics
The University of Adelaide
frank.staehler at adelaide.edu.au

http://www.frank-staehler.de