Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311974 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17535
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The recent digital revolution has significantly broadened the scope of IT-related tasks in most occupations in the labor market. In this paper, we document these changes, we propose a novel conceptual framework for thinking about the effect of technological change that incorporates the changing task distance between occupations, and we investigate its impact on worker mobility using a gravity equation approach. Our results reveal that the evolution of skill distance between jobs significantly affected mobility patterns, disproportionately favoring workers with preexisting knowledge of digital tools. Finally, we micro-found our gravity equation through a matching model to evaluate mobility in counterfactual scenarios without technological change.
Subjects: 
occupation mobility
technological change
search and matching
JEL: 
J23
J24
J62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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