2019/15 | LEM Working Paper Series | ||||||||||||||||
Routinization, Within-Occupation Task Changes and Long-Run Employment Dynamics |
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Davide Consoli, Giovanni Marin, Francesco Rentocchini and Francesco Vona |
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Keywords | |||||||||||||||||
tasks; routinization; technological change; employment dynamics; race between
technology and education
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JEL Classifications | |||||||||||||||||
J23, J24, O33.
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Abstract | |||||||||||||||||
The present study contributes to the existing literature on routinization
and employment by capturing within-occupation task changes over the period 1980-2010.
The main contributions are the measurement of such changes and the combination of
two data sources on occupational task content for the United States: the Dictionary
of Occupational Titles and the Occupational Information Network. We show that within-occupation
task change: i) accounts for 1/3 of the decline in routine-task use;
ii) accelerates in the 1990s, decelerates in the 2000s but with
significant catching-up; iii) is associated with educational upgrading in
several dimensions and iv) allows one to escape the employment decline conditional on initial routine-task intensity.
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