Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272399 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15772
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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 re-training 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.
Subjects: 
careers of workers
technological change
JEL: 
J23
J24
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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