Demand-Driven Labor Market Polarization
Diego Comin (Dartmouth) joint work with Ana Danieli (Northwestern) Marti Mestieri (Northwestern) Dartmouth February 25, 2019
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Demand-Driven Labor Market Polarization Diego Comin (Dartmouth) joint work with Ana Danieli (Northwestern) Marti Mestieri (Northwestern) Dartmouth February 25, 2019 1 / 39 US Labor Market Outcomes Have Polarized since 1980 Labor market
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◮ skilled biased technical change ◮ trade ◮ de-unionization ◮ computerization and digitization of the economic activity ◮ changes in the school curriculae 2 / 39
◮ Income grows → demand shifts to high-income-elastic sectors
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◮ Income grows → demand shifts to high-income-elastic sectors
◮ High-income elastic sectors are intensive in high- and low-skill
◮ Initial Wage bill of high- and low-skill occupations
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◮ Income grows → demand shifts to high-income-elastic sectors
◮ High-income elastic sectors are intensive in high- and low-skill
◮ Initial Wage bill of high- and low-skill occupations
◮ This pattern persists
◮ Demand-driven mechanism accounts for significant shares of
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◮ Routinization hypothesis: Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003),. . . ◮ Offshoring: Blinder (2007), Grossman and RH (2008),. . .
◮ Acemoglu and Autor (2011), Goos et al. (2014).
◮ Barany and Siegel (18), Lee and Shin (18), Buera et al. (15). ◮ Nonhomothetic CES: Comin, Lashkari and Mestieri (2015).
◮ Trade, skill premium, structural change: Cravino Sotelo (18). ◮ Sectoral trade composition: Basco and Mestieri (2013). ◮ Consumption Spillovers: Manning (04), Mazzolari and Ragusa
◮ College-educated-specific demand elasticities: Leonardi (2015). 11 / 39
◮ Trade. ◮ Looking back and ahead, from 1950 to 2036.
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◮ Keep if responses in 4 rounds, not incomplete, 5th-95th
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◮ Keep if responses in 4 rounds, not incomplete, 5th-95th
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◮ Keep if responses in 4 rounds, not incomplete, 5th-95th
◮ Age (25-37, 38-50, 51-64), number of earners (≤ 2, 2+),
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◮ Normalized to 1 for one sector ¯
s = 1.
◮ Expenditure elasticity proportional to ǫs. 14 / 39
◮ Normalized to 1 for one sector ¯
s = 1.
◮ Expenditure elasticity proportional to ǫs.
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◮ Normalized to 1 for one sector ¯
s = 1.
◮ Expenditure elasticity proportional to ǫs.
◮ If ǫs = 1 → Homothetic CES. ◮ System of equations, estimate using GMM. 14 / 39
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◮ Use average wage from 1980 CPS (5th to 95th). ◮ Ranking stable over time. ◮ Ranking occupations by years of schooling very similar.
◮ H: managerial, professional and technical occupations ◮ M: sales, clerical and administrative support occupations;
◮ L: service occupations (food/cleaning, personal care,
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1 σ c σ−1 σ
◮ ζs > 0 constant taste parameter for i = 1, . . . , I. ◮ σ is the elasticity of substitution. ◮ εi governs nonhomotheticity of i. ◮ If εi = 1 − σ, we recover homothetic CES. ◮ Parameter restriction (Hanoch, 75): ζi > 0, σ > 0,
◮ Preferences defined up to scaling factor in
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1 σ c σ−1 σ
◮ ζs > 0 constant taste parameter for i = 1, . . . , I. ◮ σ is the elasticity of substitution. ◮ εi governs nonhomotheticity of i. ◮ If εi = 1 − σ, we recover homothetic CES.
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σ c σ−1 σ
it
◮ Parameter restriction (Hanoch, 75): ζi > 0, σ > 0,
◮ Preferences defined up to scaling factor in
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1 σ c σ−1 σ
◮ ζs > 0 constant taste parameter for i = 1, . . . , I. ◮ σ is the elasticity of substitution. ◮ εi governs nonhomotheticity of i. ◮ If εi = 1 − σ, we recover homothetic CES. ◮ Parameter restriction (Hanoch, 75): ζi > 0, σ > 0,
◮ Preferences defined up to scaling factor in
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1−σ
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1−σ
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1−σ
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◮ Hours worked from Census, wages from CPS. 25 / 39
◮ Hours worked from Census, wages from CPS.
◮ Compute same way as in BEAs with Fisher price indeces. ◮ Hold relative sectoral prices to 1980.
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Sectoral Growth Predictions
◮ 81% of H–M, ◮ 80% of L–M. 27 / 39
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σ c σ−1 σ
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◮ Draws from iid log-normal.
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◮ Sectoral prices and sectoral value added in 1980 come from the
◮ {ζs} is set to match sectoral consumption in 1980.
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◮ Compute same way as in BEAs PCE with Fisher price indeces.
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Year
WL WM WH WM
Ls Ms Hs
WLL
WM M
WHH
Exercise Data 1980 0.74 1.24 0.095 0.653 0.252 0.068 0.630 0.302 2016 0.80 1.49 0.129 0.488 0.383 0.088 0.421 0.491 Model 1980 0.74 1.24 0.095 0.653 0.252 0.068 0.630 0.302 2016 0.86 1.44 0.133 0.543 0.324 0.101 0.483 0.416 E 2016 0.77 1.41 0.095 0.582 0.323 0.066 0.524 0.411 α+β 2016 0.87 1.57 0.125 0.499 0.376 0.091 0.416 0.493 E+β + α Fraction of 2.17 1.32 0.88 0.93 0.95 1.15 1.02 1.01
change1 Contribution 0.85 0.55 1.13 0.63 0.5 1.26 0.6 0.51
Contribution 0.15 0.45
0.37 0.5
0.4 0.49
(1) Fraction of the change produced by the full model, with changes in the level of expenditures, factor intensities and in the sectoral labor shares relative to total changed observed in the data. 34 / 39
◮ Most action comes from services, which are non-traded. ◮ Correct total demand for sectoral net exports. Trade wedges
Results ◮ Account for the rise of middle-class. ◮ Manufacturing was more of a luxury good in that period.
◮ How much differences in levels of income account for different
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WL WM WH WM
WLL
WMM
WHH
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