The Role of Within-Occupation Task Changes in Wage Development

Ronald Bachmann, Gökay Demir, Colin Green () and Arne Uhlendorff
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Gökay Demir: RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf

No 2022-20, Working Papers from Center for Research in Economics and Statistics

Abstract: We examine how changes in task content over time condition occupational wage development. Using survey data from Germany, we document substantial heterogeneity in within-occupational changes in task content. Combining this evidence with administrative data on individual employment outcomes over a 25-year period, we find important heterogeneity in wage penalties amongst initially routine intensive jobs. While occupations that remain (relatively) routine intensive generate substantial wage penalties, occupations with a decreasing routine intensity experience stable or even increasing wages. These findings cannot be explained by composition or cohort effects.

Keywords: technological progress; polarization; tasks; routine workers; training. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2022-10-25
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