Labour market polarisation and labour mobility – where do workers performing routine tasks end up?

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Abstract

This article examines structural change in labour markets and where workers in declining occupations end up. The analysis also considers internal migration across regions.

The results show that workers in occupations requiring routine or cognitive skills have a clearly higher probability of re-employment and upward wage mobility compared to workers in routine manual occupations. Regional concentration in export-driven and industrialised regions reduces the individual-level costs of labour market restructuring.

Paradoxically, these same regions are also strongly characterised by labour market polarisation. (AI translation)

Publication Information

Maczulskij, T. & Kauhanen, M. (2016), Työmarkkinoiden polarisaatio ja työvoiman liikkuvuus – mihin rutiininomaista työtä tekevät päätyvät? Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja, 112(3), 284–296.

  • ISSN: 0022-8427
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