Zekun Wu

Research

The Robustness of Job Polarization and the Growth of High-Skill Occupations

Article January 23, 2026

The job polarization in the U.S. labor market has been widely discussed. This paper uses the CPS-MORG data to examine the robustness of the polarization phenomena to different time periods and business cycles. A special focus is on the high-skill occupations. This paper investigates the structural characteristics of the high-skill occupations and also reveals the […]