Routinization, Within-Occupation Task Changes and Long-Run Employment Dynamics

Davide Consoli, Giovanni Marin, Francesco Rentocchini and Francesco Vona

No 2022.33, Working Papers from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Abstract: The present study adds to the literature on routinization and employment by capturing within occupation task changes over the period 1980-2010. The main contributions are the measurement of such changes and the combination of 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 reorientation away from routine tasks: i) accounts for 1/3 of the decline in routine-task use; ii) accelerates in the 1990s, decelerates in the 2000s but with significant convergence across occupations; iii) allows workers to escape the employment and wage decline, conditional on the initial level of routine-task intensity. The latter finding suggests that task reorientation is a key channel through which labour markets adapt to various forms of labour-saving technological change.

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: 2022-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lma and nep-tid
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://feem-media.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/w ... oads/NDL2022-033.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
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: Routinizaton, 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)
Working Paper: Routinization, Within-Occupation Task Changes and Long-Run Employment Dynamics (2019)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fem:femwpa:2022.33

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Alberto Prina Cerai ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).