 Within occupation wage dispersion and the task content of jobsNo 22, GRAPE Working Papers from GRAPE Group for Research in Applied Economics Abstract: The relation between income inequality and technological progress has many chapters, of which the most recent corresponds to the task content of jobs. Proponents of this theory suggest that falling prices of computational power coupled with the increasing power of computers leads to an increasing substitution of workers with computers and a hollowing of the middle of the income distribution. While empirical analysis on task content of jobs explain inequality between occupations, we test whether the framework can also foster our understanding of wage dispersion within occupations. Using European data, we obtain estimates of wage dispersion and residual wage dispersion for each occupation and relate it to the task content. The results suggest that non-routine intensive occupations presented greater wage dispersion, even after controlling for a variety of factors. Keywords: wage inequality; occupation; task content; routinization (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fme:wpaper:22 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in GRAPE Working Papers from GRAPE Group for Research in Applied Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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