Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267498 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 033.2022
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
The present study adds to the 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 reorientation away from routine tasks: i) accounts for 1/3 of the decline in routine-task use; ii) accelerates in the 1990s, decelerates in the 2000s but with significant convergence across occupations; iii) allows workers to escape the employment and wage decline, conditional on the initial level of routine-task intensity. The latter finding suggests that task reorientation is a key channel through which labour markets adapt to various forms of labour-saving technological change.
Subjects: 
Tasks
Routinization
Technological Change
Employment Dynamics
Race between Technology and Education
JEL: 
J23
J24
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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