an article published in CenterPiece (Autumn 2019)
What happens to people’s careers when demand for their occupations declines, often as a result of technological change?
Guy Michaels and colleagues’ analysis of detailed occupational data on Swedish workers over several decades indicates that while average losses in earnings and employment are relatively moderate, low-earners lose significantly more.
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Per-Anders Edin, Georg Graetz and Sofia Hernnäs are at Uppsala University, and Graetz is a research associate in CEP’s labour markets programme. Tiernan Evans is a research assistant in CEP’s labour markets programme. Guy Michaels is associate professor of economics at LSE and director of CEP’s labour markets programme.
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technological_change, occupational_decline,
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