Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250365 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Documento de Trabajo No. 276
Publisher: 
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), La Plata
Abstract: 
We study changes in employment by occupations characterized by different degree of exposure to routinization in the six largest Latin American economies over the last two decades. We combine our own indicators of routine task content based on information from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIACC) with labor market microdata from harmonized national household surveys. We find that the increase in jobs was decreasing in the automatability of the tasks typically performed in each occupation, and increasing in the initial wage, a pattern more consistent with the traditional skill-biased technological change than with the polarization hypothesis.
Subjects: 
jobs
employment
technology
automation
routinization
Latin America
JEL: 
J21
J23
J24
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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