Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267384 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15647
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
technological progress
polarization
tasks
routine workers
training
JEL: 
J31
J24
E24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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