Comments for Job Polarization in the 2000s? at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.cepr.net Mon, 20 May 2013 09:52:31 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/job-polarization-2000s#comment-21315 your graphs show rates of changes. it is to be expected that breaking down the period of technological innovation you would see a ramping up in the rate of growth from high skill to low skill, as technology polarized the economy. the nominal figures of actual jobs available by category of skill has significantly altered, and you should show these numbers to demonstrate polarization as a spent force (for the moment). there is no current significant innovation in technology to continue that trend. as infrastructural innovation of the middle of the last century had the effect of increasing the numbers of rountine worker jobs, the fact that we are no longer building infrastructure, means those jobs are fewer. each type of innovational change will direct the allocation of economic resource in a different direction, based on preception of value by the society. what is interesting is that your further claim of the seperation of wage increases with job creation by skill segment, reflects more how resourcs (now being a greater protion of resources being controlle by high earner and thus allocated by individuals with dispersed objectives) are used based on want v. need. Need demands a higher value, where as want is fickle. if cost is irrelevant in my purchase decision for a meal, the competition for increasing perceived value will increase, but does not generate higher wages in the non skilled workforce. - tom murray Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:41:36 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/job-polarization-2000s#comment-21293 What is needed are the actual data points and precise source that can be checked. - ltr Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:56:08 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/job-polarization-2000s#comment-21277 Good point. plenty of JD's and MBA's out there who can't get jobs (and by plenty i mean !#*!# A LOT). everyone is suffering, and it's policy, not technology. - Chris Engel Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:18:53 +0100