Routinization, Within-Occupation Task Changes and Long-Run Employment Dynamics

Davide Consoli, Giovanni Marin, Francesco Rentocchini and Francesco Vona

No 329341, FEEM Working Papers from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

Abstract: The present study adds to the 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 reorientation away from routine tasks: i) accounts for 1/3 of the decline in routine-task use; ii) accelerates in the 1990s, decelerates in the 2000s but with significant convergence across occupations; iii) allows workers to escape the employment and wage decline, conditional on the initial level of routine-task intensity. The latter finding suggests that task reorientation is a key channel through which labour markets adapt to various forms of labour-saving technological change.

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35
Date: 2022-11-18
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.329341

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