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Lousy and Lovely Jobs: the Rising Polarization of Work in Britain

This paper argues that the model of technical change proposed by Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003), that technology is replacing routine tasks, better characterises what is happening in the UK labour market than former 'skills-biased' models which propose that those who work with technology see greater returns.

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