Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers

Michele Battisti (), Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg ()
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Michele Battisti: University of Glasgow
Uta Schönberg: University College London

No 15772, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth than unaffected workers. Rather, firms that adopt T&O offer routine workers re-training opportunities to upgrade to more abstract jobs. Older workers form an important exception: T&O increases the risk that they permanently withdraw from the labor market and reduces their earnings, regardless of the tasks they performed in the firm prior to T&O.

Keywords: technological change; careers of workers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J24 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57 pages
Date: 2022-11
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Published - published in: Journal of the European Economic Association , 2023, 21 (4), 1551–1594

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