Routinizaton, within-occupation task changes and long-run employment dynamics

Davide Consoli, Giovanni Marin, Francesco Rentocchini and Francesco Vona

No 2019-08, Documents de Travail de l'OFCE from Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE)

Abstract: This study contributes to the literature on routinization and employment by capturing within- occupation task changes over the period 1980-2010. The main contribution is the measurement of such changes combining 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 escaping the employment decline conditional on initial routine-task intensity.

Keywords: Tasks; routinization; technological change; employment dynamics; race between technology and education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J24 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-05
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Journal Article: Routinization, within-occupation task changes and long-run employment dynamics (2023)
Working Paper: Routinization, Within-Occupation Task Changes and Long-Run Employment Dynamics (2022)
Working Paper: Routinization, Within-Occupation Task Changes and Long-Run Employment Dynamics (2022)
Working Paper: Routinization, within-occupation task changes and long-run employment dynamics (2019)
Working Paper: Routinization, within-occupation task changes and long-run employment dynamics (2019)
Working Paper: Routinization, Within-Occupation Task Changes and Long-Run Employment Dynamics (2019)
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