"Routine Biased Technical Change"

rbtc.md

Autor - How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class

Autor - The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market (datasets)

Autor - Polanyi’s Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth

Does Polanyi’s Tacit Knowledge Dimension Exist? fairly extensive citations in the management literature

The Trend is the Cycle: Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries

COMPETING ENGINES OF GROWTH: INNOVATION AND STANDARDIZATION - "The diffusion of new technologies is often coupled with standardization of product and process innovations. New technologies, when first conceived and implemented, are often complex and require skilled personnel to operate... Their widespread adoption and use first necessitates the tasks involved in these new technologies to become more routine and standardized, ultimately enabling their cheaper production using lower-cost unskilled labor."

Of Pencils and Computers

Technological Change, Occupational Structures and Income Inequality in European Labor Markets. Quotes Hubbard (arts and crafts movement): "“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man". These varities of work are the result of a long historical process of real subsumption.

Is Job Polarization Holding Back the Labor Market?

Key Labor Market Indicators by Occupation