The dynamic of job competition during the ICT revolution

Arnaud Cheron, Francois Langot and Eva Moreno-Galbis
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Eva Moreno Galbis

No 702, CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) from CEPREMAP

Abstract: Our paper seeks to gain insights on the e®ect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization process of the labor market fostered by the di®usion of novel technologies. Based on micro data, we ¯rst present some stylized facts characterizing the occidental countries' labor markets. We then develop an endogenous job destruction framework µa la Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) where each individual is endowed with a given ability level. The process of contact between the set of heterogeneous workers and ¯rms is represented by a traditional matching function. The segmentation of the labor market between workers having the required ability to occupy cognitive jobs (where novel technologies are used) and the rest of the workers occupying simple jobs is endogenously determined. Firms o®ering a cognitive job support a set up cost but ICT are assumed to improve their productivity. When simulated the model manages to reproduce the U-shaped path followed by the ability requirements needed in cognitive positions as ICT got increasingly di®used. Furthermore, we also draw conclusions concerning the evolution of job stability, the size of each labor market segment and the unemployment rates.

Keywords: technological change; overeducation; job turnover; heterogeneous agents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J24 J63 L23 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2007
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