But for those in the middle, wages have been flat or even slightly down.
But the situation has become worse in the last few years, as most of the middle-wage jobs lost during the recession have been replaced with lower-paid work.
Job polarisation refers to the relative job growth in the lower and upper tail of the wage distribution relative to the middle-wage ones.
Indeed, Autor et al. (2003) and Goos et al. (2009) relate the abovementioned polarization process to a decrease in the demand for occupations performing routine job contents or tasks that workers in the middle-wage occupations perform and which can be easily mechanized.
While jobs in fast food and retail are booming, the middle-wage jobs that disappeared during the recession have been slower to return.
This is 59% of the hourly rate of £14 per hour earned by those on the median (middle) wage.
Recent evidence from a variety of countries has found a neat decline in the share of middle wage occupations which has been named the polarization process.
Workers at the bottom and in the middle of wage distribution have seen their earnings stagnate in real terms, after adjusting for inflation, while high-wage workers have seen their earnings rise sharply.
As the middle class wage economy has tanked for decades, repeated national surveys that take the temperature of the middle class show a consistent strong support for the idea of broad-based profit sharing in American business.
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