We analyze US job growth from the 1980s to the 2010s. We define jobs as occupations
within sectors to capture position in the production system as well as skill hierarchies. Low …

The US job structure became increasingly polarized at the turn of the twenty-first century as
high-and low-wage jobs grew strongly and many middle-wage jobs declined. Prior research …

We offer a unified analysis of the growth of low-skill service occupations between 1980 and
2005 and the concurrent polarization of US employment and wages. We hypothesize that …

We document that job polarization—contrary to the consensus—has started as early as the
1950s in the United States: middle-wage workers have been losing both in terms of …

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations
and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of US earnings and job growth sharply …

Views on what is happening to labor demand in the middle of the US labor market are
strongly divergent. Many economists argue that the middle is “hollowing out” as a result of …

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low% skill occupations
and expanded in high% skill occupations, the shape of US earnings and job growth sharply …

We study a group of service industries that are skill-intensive, widely traded, and have
recently seen explosive wage growth. Between 1980 and 2015, these “Skilled Tradable …

Much research (surveyed in Katz and Autor, 1999) documents a substantial widening of the
US wage structure since the late 1970s, driven by increases in educational wage …

Since the “golden era” of Fordist production in the postwar period (Marglin and Schor, 1990),
the employment structure of advanced industrial nations has been altered, probably …