Contributing Causes and Consequences for the Relationship Between Rising Economic Growth and Declining Job Quality
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Contributing Causes and Consequences for the Relationship Between Rising Economic Growth and Declining Job Quality
Yazar:
Latner, Jonathan Pechman, author.
ISBN:
9780438029217
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1 electronic resource (143 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Ted Gerber Committee members: Markus Gangl; Eric Grodsky; Timothy Smeeding; Leann Tigges.
Özet:
In the beginning of the 21st century, the evidence suggests that capital-intensive economies are characterized by a growing ability to produce economic output alongside a growing inability to connect that output to quality employment growth. This project consists of three empirical chapters that explores various aspects of that relationship.
The first chapter explores the impact of technological change on the demand for labor. Using cross-sectional data from the United States Census and a non-parametric method to decompose employment change into supply-side and demand-side effects, the results suggest that the effect of technological change on the demand for employment is labor-saving, not skill-biased. There is an incentive to economize on labor costs, but there is no direct incentive to economize on skills.
The second and third chapters explore one outcome of the changing demand for labor: rising levels of employment precarity and related income volatility. The second chapter uses panel data and a hierarchical linear model to define income volatility in a new way that distinguishes income volatility from income mobility. The results suggest that income volatility is not rising, but the distribution of income volatility is growing more unequal. Chapter three examines the distribution of income volatility and its consequences on quality of life and a variance function regression. The results suggest that rising income volatility does not reduce economic quality of life, as defined by wealth and consumption. Instead, income volatility is a symptom of an already low quality of life, as defined by low and declining levels of income.
The dissertation explores the issue of high and rising inequality, which is perhaps the defining issue of our time. The growing disconnect between economic growth and quality employment growth is partly the result of technological change on labor demand. One consequence is that the jobs that are available are less secure than they once were. Given growing economic prosperity, it is reasonable to question the relationship between income and work. Inequality may be durable in society, but it does not need to limit or reduce the life conditions of individuals or families, as it appears to do now.
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School code: 0262
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