Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/203105 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2019/15
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
The present study contributes to the existing 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 task change: i) accounts for 1/3 of the decline in routine-task use; ii) accelerates in the 1990s, decelerates in the 2000s but with significant catching-up; iii) is associated with educational upgrading in several dimensions and iv) allows one to escape the employment decline conditional on initial routine-task intensity.
Subjects: 
tasks
routinization
technological change
employment dynamics
race between technology and education
JEL: 
J23
J24
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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