Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers

Michele Battisti, Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, vol. 21, issue 4, 1551-1594

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 retraining 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.

Date: 2023
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