Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/271977 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10333
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting differential exposure to the national decline in routine-task intensity across local labor markets, we show that the secular decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in vocational-trades education and increasingly invest in college education. Our results highlight that labor demand changes impact inequality in the next generation. Low-ability and low-SES students are most responsive to task-biased demand changes and, as a result, intergenerational mobility in college education increases.
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Working Paper
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