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El 99% restante

28 January 2015

There is a human mass that despite being available for work and knowledge loses ability to be employed. This generates a terrific competition by seeking higher returns among the cheapest labour in Asia and the suppressor technology jobs in the developed world. This seriously affects the social fabric of both. For the first because it depresses deliberately and systematically the cost of labour so. For developed countries because it leads to what Alan Manning of the London School of Economics has called the ''polarization of employment'' and David Author of MIT has called the ''missing middle''. That is the phenomenon whereby only the jobs located to the ends of the career ladder are growing.

This article was published by El Universal on January 28, 2015
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Related publications
Lovely and lousy jobs, Alan Manning. Article in CentrePiece Volume 18, Issue 2, Autumn 2013
Lovely and lousy jobs: The rising polarization of work in Britain, Maarten Goos and Alan Manning, The Review of Economic Studies, 89(1), February 2007
'Lovely and lousy jobs: The rising polarization of work in Britain', Maarten Goos and Alan Manning, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.604, December 2003

Related links
Alan Manning webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage
Community Programme webpage

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