Monday, March 09, 2015
NEUJOBS - paper on low-skill jobs
This project has much about innovation and employment trends.
The paper that I am currently perusing is actually about low-skill service jobs:
http://www.neujobs.eu/publications/working-papers/low-wage-service-occupations-europe-inevitable-underclass
"Over the past two decades technological change has led to job polarization, or the growth of those employed in low-wage (and high-wage) occupations located disproportionally in the service sector at the expense of mid-wage jobs. Low-wage service occupations, often referred to as “face-to-face” services, involve tasks which cannot be completed by computers or off-shored, and this non-routinization hypothesis expresses the economic logic to their presumed inevitability. These jobsinclude foremost caregivers, restaurant workers, cleaners, and salespersons,occupations often seen as necessary today to sustain the dual earner model by marketizing domestic tasks......."
Much empirical analysis
"Low-wage service occupations occupy an important part of the employment structure of post-industrial labor markets and this transformation raises alarms about inequality since employment in such occupations arguably depends on weak working conditions. This study examines trends in low-wage service employment across 19 European countries between 1992 and 2010 in order to get leverage on whether their expansion and poor quality are both as inevitable and inter-related as the literature suggests"
The paper that I am currently perusing is actually about low-skill service jobs:
http://www.neujobs.eu/publications/working-papers/low-wage-service-occupations-europe-inevitable-underclass
"Over the past two decades technological change has led to job polarization, or the growth of those employed in low-wage (and high-wage) occupations located disproportionally in the service sector at the expense of mid-wage jobs. Low-wage service occupations, often referred to as “face-to-face” services, involve tasks which cannot be completed by computers or off-shored, and this non-routinization hypothesis expresses the economic logic to their presumed inevitability. These jobsinclude foremost caregivers, restaurant workers, cleaners, and salespersons,occupations often seen as necessary today to sustain the dual earner model by marketizing domestic tasks......."
Much empirical analysis
"Low-wage service occupations occupy an important part of the employment structure of post-industrial labor markets and this transformation raises alarms about inequality since employment in such occupations arguably depends on weak working conditions. This study examines trends in low-wage service employment across 19 European countries between 1992 and 2010 in order to get leverage on whether their expansion and poor quality are both as inevitable and inter-related as the literature suggests"
